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VOL. 102 NO. 17
She's Riding In Style
Mission Impossible Star
Visits Friends In KM
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NHRC
KM Resident Gets
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Thursday, April 26, 1990
Mountie's Play F-
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Conference Lea
Limousine Takes
Secretary To Work
Eat your hearts out, secretaries.
Kathy Summitt, of Sharon Drive, is getting the royal
treatment this week.
Kathy's neighbors were surprised Monday when a
white chauffeur-driven limousine pulled up to Sharon
Drive to pick up Kathy Summitt, executive secretary,
and give her a ride to work.
That afternoon at 5:30 p.m. promptly the limousine
brought Mrs. Summitt home but this time the neigh-
bors and Kathy's sisters-in-law Sandra Wilson and
Betty Johnson, her mother-in-law Kathaleen Herndon,
and niece, Beth Wilson, were on hand to greet her
along with Kathy's husband, Scott Summitt, and their
2- year-old daughter, Erin. Scott also works in
Charlotte for Duke Fluordaniel, an affiliate of Duke
Power Company.
Mrs. Summitt, an executive secretary for Ford
Motor Company on Sharon Amity Road in Charlotte
for 6 1/2 years, is getting the royal treatment this week
on the occasion of National Secretaries Week.
She's commuting to Charlotte in a limo all week
compliments of Gorilla Radio 95.1 as the winner of
the station's Secretary of the Week promotion and
drawing. Not only is she being picked up and trans-
ported to Charlotte in a limo, she is treated to lunch by
a DJ every day at a different eatery in Charlotte.
Monday she dined at The Drawbridge.
The royalty treatment also includes flowers for a
year.
Photo by Dieter Melhorn
SECRETARY OF THE WEEK-Kathy Summitt doesn't usually come home from work in a chauffeur-
driven limousine. But this week is an exception. This is National Secretaries Week and Summitt is
"Secretary of the Week" in a Charlotte radio promotion, which also includes lunch for five days in a top
Charlotte restaurant and flowers for a year. Mrs. Summitt is getting the royal treatment from the radio
station and from her ¢ o-workers, too, who have noticed she's commuting in style to Charlotte to work.
They wish they were as lucky.
City Council
Kings Mountain City Council Tuesday awarded a
$3,989,680.00 contract to Thamer Construction
Company, Atlanta, Ga., the major portion of the
- wastewater fully improvements project which comes.
from bonds Voted by citizens last year,
David Pond; the city's consulting engineer from "W.
K. Dickson Co., said construction will get underway
June 1 and should be completed in 12 months. "This
company has a good reputation of getting into a city
and getting the work done," said Pond. By receiving
bids and awarding the negotiated contract, the city is
ready to move on the major piece of wastewater work,
said Pond, who has been working with the apparent
low bidder to negotiate the contract down to within the
funds available for the project. The contract is subject
to state approval of design amendments which Pond
said would be completd by mid-May.
City Manager George Wood said the city has al-
ready sent payment to Gastonia of $500,000 for pay-
ment of the city's share in the Crowders Creek
Wastewater Treatment project which also came from
wastewater bond monies.
In other actions of the meeting at which Mayor Pro
Symphony
Awards Sewer Contracts
Tem Scott Neisler presided, Council:
+Approved Neisler's suggestion that the city spot
annex Transco on York Road to take advantage of
franchise revenue.
+Rezoned, efter public Bearing i no none Se
in opposition, property of Sue Jean it MeClang vy
on Shelby Road from residential to neighborhood burs 4
ness.
+Approved a joint mapping project, on recommen-
dations of the utility commission, with Shelby and
Cleveland County which will cost $107,000 over a six-
year period. The city's cost this year, to come from-
budgeted funds, is $10,000. For the next four years the
. cost will be $5,000 each year and for the sixth year the
cost will be $17,000. The digitized, based maps will
cover the full area served by the utility system, includ-
ing Moss Lake and Grover. Bill McCarter, the county's
planning director, was present for the meeting.
McCarter gave an overview of the mapping proposal
at last Wednesday's meeting of the utilities commis-
sion. Kings Mountain has updated electric, water, and
gas system maps and has mapped one-half of the sew-
er system.
Set May 3
Under the baton of Associate
Conductor ‘Darryl One, the
Charlotte Symphony Orchestra will
present a concert Thursday, May 3,
at 8 p.m. in B. N. Barnes
Auditorium.
Tickets are on sale at $6 for
adults and $3 for students and se-
nior citizens.
Prior to the public concert, the
Symphony Orchestra will perform
for Kings Mountain District
Schools Elementary pupils at 10
a.m. in Barnes Auditorium.
The concert is sponsored in part
by a Grassroots grant from the N.
C. Arts Council.
A native of Chicago, Illinois,
One studied mathematics at Illinois
State University before switching
to music his junior year. After re-
ceiving his Bachelor of Music and
Master of Music degrees in music
composition, he attended Indiana
University where he received a
second Master of Music in
Instrumental conducting.
He began his conducting career
as a Conducting Fellow in the
Aspen Music Festival and the
Conductor's Guild Summer
Institute. He has conducted for
Leonard Bernstein in a master
class, and as a final five participant
in three American Symphony
Orchestra League Summer
Workshops. He was invited to par-
ticipate in the International Young
Conductor's Symposium with Rich
Leinsdorf, and the Hans
Swarowsky International
Conducting Competition.
One made his conducting debut
with the Charlotte Symphony
Orchestra in 1988, performing a
program of Britten, Bartok and
Beethoven. He later made his sub-
scription debut with the Denver
Symphony Orchestra, where he
serves as associate conductor, hold-
ing the position concurrently with
his position in Charlotte. He re-
cently guest conducted the Oregon
Symphony and the Indianapolis
Symphony and served as cover
conductor for the Detroit
Symphony's subscription series.
In addition to conducting, One
has written several small works for
orchestra and a number of arrange-
ments for ensembles.
One conducts on both the
Subscription and Chamber
Orchestra series in Charlotte, as
well as the Nutcracker perfor-
mances, the popular Lollipop and
Summer Pops concerts and educa-
tional programs.
The Charlotte Symphony
Orchestra, approaching its sixth
decade, is considered one of the
finest regional symphony orches-
tras in the country. Formed in
1932, it is the oldest continuing or-
chestra ensemble in North
Carolina.
SYMPHONY COMING NEXT THURSDAY-Darryl One direct the Charlotte Symphony
Orchestra in a concert at Barnes Auditorium Thursday, May 3, at 8 p.m. A children's
concert will be held that morning at 10 at Barnes Auditorium. Tickets are on sale at KM
District schools.
K. E. (RED) MORRISON
+Heard presentation by Gary Stewart of Woolpert &
Associates on a master plan for Cleveland County's
Parks and Recreation System and invited the group to
conduct a public hearing in Kings Mountain. Stewart
sid tne first public hearing i held Toudsday
night at / p.m. at Marion School in Shelby and invited
Council, and the interested public fo attend. After sev-
eral more public hearings, a full presentation will be
made to Cleveland County commissioners. The project
details the number of recreational parks in Cleveland
County and assesses current and projected recreational
needs. City Recreation Director David Hancock has
been representing the city at planning sessions.
+Awarded contract to the high bidder, Rimtrax, at
$27,693.68, for a backhoe/loader for Mountain Rest
Cemetery on recommendation of Supt. Dorus Bennett,
+Set May 29 at 7:30 p.m. for public hearing on pro-
posed rezoning of property of Richard K. Moore from
R-20 to R-10.
+Invited citizens who have Hugo-related stumps on
their properties to call the city public works depart-
ment and take advantage of stump grinding, free to
participants who sign a release form. Residents will
need to sign up to take advantage of the service.
He's 'Middle Red’
Most friends of K. E. Morrison recognize him as a
super. salesman at Wade Ford in Kings Mountain but
many may not know that he is the third "Red" in his
family and grows beautiful azaleas by the yards.
Most any day of the week, "Red" Morrison is busy
at his desk as sales manager at Wade Ford which he
joined about 19 years ago. He left Wade Tyner for
about 18 months to open up his own used car business,
then returned to a job he loves because he loves work-
ing with the public, whether he's selling Fords or talk-
ing about life in Kings Mountain, his hometown. For
18 years before he got back in the car business, he op-
erated KM Finance Company and Morrison Loan Co.
downtown.
Morrison is actually "Middle Red" in a family of
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. 28086
Citizens
Threaten |
To Sue KM
Residents 'Strongly Suggest’
Station Not Go On West Side
Property owners opposed to proposed new high
voltage transmission lines running to the west of
Davidson Park for a proposed substation site say they
will fight the city and have hired a Hickory law firm to b
represent them.
James E. Herndon, J. E. Herndon Company execu-
tive and resident of Herndon Farm Road, told mem-
bers of the city's utilities committee Monday-and the
full board of commissioners who attended the meeting
along with 14 property owners and city officials, that
Edgemont Road, North Sims Street, North Goforth and -
Herndon Farm area property owners "strongly suggest
that the city administration consider other sites to
avoid litigation."
The utilities committee-which had originally
planned to make a site recommendation to City
Council Tuesday night after public hearing last week-
postponed any recommendation to City Council for
two weeks until a meeting can be held with officials of
Duke Power Company.
Utilities Chairman Al Moretz said Monday's special
meeting was continued from last Wednesday night's
long session of the utilities committee because of addi-
tional questions to be addressed by the board. The let-
ter from Herndon and group's attorney, John G. Fuller,
of Hickory, was dated April 20 to members of City
Council. At Tuesday night's Council meeting Moretz
made the motion, seconded by Commissioner Elvin Hh)
Green, to table action on the substation site until the J
meeting with Duke Power officials. Moretz said he ex- J
pected the protesting property owners to appear before
the mdi thoeting Of City Council when the substation &
proposal may be on the agenda, 0
Consulting engineer Bill Little said the city's suppli- g
er of electricity, Duke Power Company, had ap- i
proached Kings Mountain officials sometime ago and
asked if Kings Mountain would be interested in get-
ting a line fed into the city at no cost to the city. "Very
few cities our size have that opportunity,” said Little,
and the Utilities Committee jumped at the chance but
looked at several sites before they considered putting
the substation to house a 100KV powerline on a small
tract of land near Parker Street they hope to buy from |
Kings Mountain District Schools. The addition of a
100 KV line would eliminate brownouts, Little said. A
Little told the group Monday that the 100KV double !
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circuit line would offer "greater reliability.” The site is
located south of the new bypass and west of the pre-
sent delivery and north of old 74.
Little estimated the cost to build the Tine to tie-in at
the site at $141,000 by retaining the existing delivery
and cutting to five circuits. He said the proposed site at
Sims and Parker is the least costly site. "We looked at
putting the substation at the Citizens Service Center
site but found the cost would be an additional
$396,000 for feeders to build the line across from
Benfield and three lines crossing interstate to Walker,
he said. "That would mean a significant amount of
money to build all four circuits ."
Dan Finger asked if the new substation will save
Duke Power money and Dot Finger asked why the
city didn't know the cost before citizens approved the
recent bond referendum for utilities improvements.
Little said Duke had made the offer to pay for the 44
KV line and there is insufficient room at the Citizens
Service Center site for it.
Lou Ballew asked why the city was getting a "free
generous gift" and was Duke looking after the future
of Kings Mountain or Duke Power?
Little said Kings Mountain receives the benefit from
higher voltage. Duke Power will be footing the bill.
Little said that Duke Power works with Kings
© Mountain in location of lines but the city can't dictate
voltage and Jim Herndon asked if a 44 KV line was re-
ally that objectionable. |
See Council, 7-A
three sons of the late John H. and Myrtle Morrison. He |
got the nickname as the second son in the family. "Big |
Red" was the late W. D. Morrison who sold Chevrolets |
for years at the old Victory Chevrolet Company and
Dixon Chevrolet Co. for the late Charlie Dixon and W. |
G. Grantham. "Little Red" is the baby of the family, |
Roy Morrison, who is the only one with red hair and is |
cmployed as a heavy equipment operator in the con- | i
struction business. Called "Cotton Top" as a boy, K. E. | 4
Morrison said both he and W. D. Morrison had light |
red to blonde hair but both lost some of it on top. "The |
name just stuck and everybody knew who was who |
until we started courting and our mother had to open |
our love letters to figure out which letter belonged to | |
See Morrison, 5-A
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