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Vol. 102 No.29 : Thursday, July 19, 1990 Kings Mountain, N.C. 28086 35°
CITY OFFICIALS BREAK GROUND-Mayor Kyle Smith, left,
and Councilmen Al Moretz and Fred Finger break ground for the
$3 million expansion at Pilot Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant on
U. S. 74 West. Construction is expected to be completed by summer
1991.
WORLD CHAMPION
Kings Mountain city officials broke ground
Monday morning for a $3 million expansion to
74 West.
Construction of the 2 million gallon per day
expansion and sludge handling facility is getting
underway by Thamer Construction Company.
"This is a big step toward progress and a year
from now should see the completion of this
much needed facility," said Mayor Kyle Smith,
assisted by Utility Committee Chairman Al
Moretz and utility committee member Fred
Finger, both city commissioners, in. shoveling
the first dirt at the site. Also. attending the
ceremonies were Jim Broome, Thamer
Construction Superintendent; Ken Sawyer,
project manager; Jerry Black, vice president of
Thamer; Jim Reid, of the State Environmental
$3 Million Expansion Begins At Pilot Creek
'Big Step Toward Progress’
Protection Agency in Asheville; City
councilmen Scott Neisler and Jackie Barrett,
Wood, City Engineer Tom Howard, Barbara
Danner, representing the Cleveland County
Office of Economic Development, Walt Ollis,
Wastewater superintendent; and Pilot plant
employees .
After the groundbreaking and refreshments,
officials took a tour of the facility. :
Pilot Creek Wastewater Plant is comprised o
70 acres adjacent to the small Pilot Creek and
U.S. 74. It has a current capacity of treating four
million gallons per day of wastewater. All
treatment is aerobic. The wastewater flows from
the city of Kings Mountain and picks up some
county users as it flows to the treatment facility.
Initially, the treatment plant was built in
1967 with a capacity of two million gallons per
day. In 1974 it was expanded to the current four
million gallons per day. The treatment process
provide dechlorination capability at the Pilot county commissioner Charlie Harry, school includes primary screening, aeration,
Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, the city's board member Billy King, engineers with W. K. clarification basins, chlorine for disinfection
largest wastewater treatment operation on U. S. Dickson Company, City Manager George and a sludge belt press operation.
The sewage collections system is comprised
of 100 miles of various sized sewer lines and 28
pump stations. Discharge is .75 miles away into
Muddy Fork immediately adjacent to Buffalo
Creek. ;
Samples are taken regularly at various points
throughout the treatment plant and at several
industrial plants. Lab analyses are performed at
both the internal lab at the treatment plant and
at independent labs as necessary. A high level of
quality is maintained in the process to insure
that the water discharge is biologically and
chemically safe.
Monday's groundbreaking signals the start of
one of the major Kings Mountain improvements
projects funded by bond money.
3 Others Join Paper
KFalls' Horse
Is The Best
Fein
Darrell Austin has been named
Austin Heads
When she was six years old,
Audrey Falls received a pony from
her parents and fell in love with
horses.
Now 15 and a 10th grader at
Victory Christian Academy, the
avid Kings Mountain horsewoman
still loves the little pony she called
"Cherokee" but set her sights on
the big time in horse shows and
won her first World championship.
Last week Audrey showed her
handsome, white and sorrel
American Paint horse, "Cowboy
Dancer," to the title of World
Champion Junior Gelding in Fort
Worth, Texas.
More than 1,000 horses and
4,000 people, including the Kings
Mountain Fallses, traveled to Fort
APHA's World Championship
Shows July 7-15.
Junior geldings is for horses
three years old and younger. Falls
showed her horse against nine of
the top geldings in the nation to
bring home a silver halter worth
$500, a $100 savings bonds, a sil-
ver belt buckle, other gifts and 44
halter points fos Cowboy, which
means that when Cowboy attains
50 points the horse will rank supe-
rior and make him very valuable to
the Falls family, who own six hors-
es in their stables near J Falls Inc.
on York Road. :
Audrey was accompanied to
Texas by her mother, Brenda Falls;
her sister, Libby, 13, also an avid
horsewoman, and a friend, Melissa
Lewis of Gastonia.
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| WORLD CHAMPION:
Herald Staff
Publisher of the Kings Mountain
Herald and Shirley Austin, W.P.
"Bill" Fulton and Nancy Miller
have joined the Herald's advertis-
ing department.
Dean Ridings, former Herald
Publisher, has been named
Publisher of the Belmont Banner
and Mount Holly News.
In addition to his duties at the
Herald, Austin will also publish the
Bessemer City Record and
Cherryville Eagle.
Austin formerly worked at the
Herald for 19 years as Advertising
Director and General Manager. He
left the paper in March to organize
The Sherwood House, an advertis-
ing agency. He has also worked in
D. AUSTIN
WORLD CHAMPION-Audrey Falls and her American Paint,
"Cowboy Dancer" won the World Champion Junior Gelding horse
show in Fort Worth, Texas last week. The 15-year-old Kings
Mountain girl has been showing horses since she was six.
the advertising departments of the
Charlotte Observer and Gastonia
Gazette, where he won state and
Worth to compete in the American
Junior Paint Horse Association's
Youth World Championship and
Audrey's other horse, CIA,
See Champ, 3-A
Video Promotes KM
Kings Mountain's new promotional video
drew rave reviews from 50 people attending
the premier showing Thursday night at City
Hall.
"Welcome to Kings Mountain," the
announcer began and from there the eight-
minute video moves quickly and shows vivid
descriptions of how good it is to come home
to Kings Mountain. "Kings Mountain- it's
more than a place to live, it's a place to come
home to," is all the title implies.
Charlotte skyline. The Kings Mountain By-
Pass. Schools. Churches. Industries. Boy
Scouts and Girl Scouts. Downtown. Moss
Lake. Affordable housing. New housing
projects, including Gold Run, Elizabeth
Condominiums, North Shores at Moss Lake,
Bethlehem Estates. Golfers at Kings
Mountain Country Club. Aerial view of
Woodbridge Country Club. Kings Mountain
Herald in the world's largest log cabin and
pressroom activity at The Herald. Kings
July.
See Austin, 7-A
There have been several power outages
during the week but none due to overloaded
circuits. Kings Mountain City Manager
George Wood said city officials are crossing
their fingers that they have found some
MILLER FULTON
Are Outages Over?
Upping the relay settings on the city's12
KV electrical sub-station to 600 amps is
hopefully solving the power outr~ _ which
have plagued Kings Mountain citizens and
puzzled city officials during the hot month of
residents to continue to conserve electricity
by cutting back on usage during peak hours.
A tractor trailer wrecked and knocked out
two poles in front of the Kings Mountain
Junior High causing power outages in parts
of the city, disrupting telephone service and
tearing down telephone and cable lines.
Saturday, lightning struck three pole-
mounted transformers at Lynntex Plant
causing temporary outage at Pine Minor
There are scenes of community and Mountain City Hall. Shopping scenes. temporary solution for at least the 45-60 Apartments.
church life, including the KM Senior Center : i remaining days of summer.
with senior citizens engaged in activity. The See Video, 7-A LORETTA COZART Wood encourages Kings Mountain See Outages, 2-A
Outside-City Water
Discussed
The city utilities committee,
meeting Tuesday night, reaffirmed
the city's policy on outside-city in-
stallation of utilities in a request
from Archdale community resi-
dents for water.
Director of Community Services
Tom Howard said that he had re-
ceived requests for several resi-
dents who reside on the old county
water line and who are questioning
paying the county a $500 fee and
the city a $800 fee for a tap-on.
City Manager George Wood
pointed out, that in an agreement
with the county, the policy states
that if property is contiguous or
abutting right-of-way in which a
KINGS MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
By Group
water line exists, the city will au-
thorize a tap-on at a fee of $800 for
the tap plus $500 fee remitted to
the county. Outside city residents
pay 100% of the cost of installation
of utilities and Wood said that resi-
dents of the area who are forming a
sub-division should get together
and petition the city for services
and share the cost of installation of
an eight inch line.
Members of the commission,
which includes Al Moretz, Fred
Finger and Alvin Greene, will rec-
ommend to city council proposal
from W. K. Dickson Company for
See Utilities, 2-A
LESTER BIDDIX
Les Biddix Still Going Strong
His new neighbors at Battle Forest Apartments
can't believe Lester Biddix is almost 91 years old. He
belies his years with his keen sense of humor, his
friendliness, and his zest for life.
Biddix sold his car two years ago when he decided
to quit driving. A year ago he moved into a new apart-
ment in town. Now, he rides with family and friends to
church, takes the Senior Citizen van to the Depot ev-
ery day for lunch, and enjoys company. Talking about
old times is his favorite pastime. He never meets a
stranger.
Reared on a mill village and on the farm in the days
when times were hard and kids worked long hours in
the fields and in the cotton mills, Biddix says he's liv-
ing in the good old days now. "Why, I went to work
when I was eight years old at the old Bonnie Mill and
didn’t make a nickel until I learned to doff and then
made only a nickel an hour, $3 a week for 60 hours
work," he recalled. :
Those were the days when kids ran the spinning
room, learned to doff, and run pickers. They weren't
required to go to school and Biddix regrets that he
missed out on the three R's. Once he started working,
he soon learned about every job in the mill, following
in his father's footsteps as they worked at the old
Bonnie, in Clifton, S.C., in Shelby, back at the Bonnie,
in Hardin, and at the old Phenix Mill where he met his
late wife Mary Bell and they were married Jan. 20,
1918. "I missed the Army in World War War I. The
surrender came about the time I would have had to go
to war," he said. Mary Bell was 19 and Lester Biddix
was 18 and they were married 60 years before she
died, setting up housekeeping with his parents in a mill
house at the old Mauney Mill. Biddix went from the
Mauney to the Cora, then to the Sadie, and to a farm
near Kings Creek, S.C., working on the farm and in
See Biddix, 5-A