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VOL. 104 NO. 4
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Thursday, January 23, 1992
Oak Grove Community residnts are being offered water service
by the Cleveland County Sanitary District. Mike Richardson, man-
ager of the authority, standing, signed up 20 families Monday at a
Chamber bang
Jim Taylor, popular humorist and after-dinner
speaker, will entertain members of the Kings
Mountain Chamber of Commerce and guests at
the annual banquet Monday night at 7 p.m. at
Holiday Inn.
Tickets are on sale from Chamber Secretary
Lucille Williams at $15 per person. Door prizes
Department.
a past member of the Shelby Parks and
Recreation Commission and served nine years
on Piedmont Boy Scout Council.
Shelby's Citizen of the Year in 1972, he was a
member of the Shelby delegation to Portland,
Oregon when Shelby was named an "All
American City." He served two terms on the
public meeting attended by 125 citizens at Oak Grove Fire
uet is Monday
Taylor served four years during World War II
in the Intelligence Section,
Headquarters, 83rd Infantry Division in France,
Belgium and Luxembourg.
Division
A member of Shelby Presbyterian Church, he
is Sunday School superintendent, a teacher, and
from local businesses will also be provided. Board of Trustees of Cleveland Memorial rulingelder. , =, "i -
An executive with Royster Transport Hospital, two terms on the Board of Trustees of if yy i
Company of Shelby, Taylor is past president of Lees-McRae College and for 28 years was Hej ineniodin ta bony : e. Rovster and.
Shelby Rotary Club, Cleveland County Cancer chairman of Shejby Planning and Zong # by, worlds Fred Dig son anage
Society, Cleveland County Mental Health He aiso served four years on the advisory board gr PE Dig BL
for Cleveland County Girls Club and is currently New
Association, Cleveland County Boys Club,
Greater Shelby Chamber of Commerce and
Cleveland County Historical Association. He is
a member of the Cleveland County Economic
Development Commission.
Kings Mountain People
officers of the Camber to be headed by
Ruby M. Alexander as) president will assume
their duties at the banque.
Bill knows his business
By ELIZABETH STEWART
of The Herald Staff
For 19 years Bill Grissom has filmed the Kings
Mountain High football games and for 31 years he
has been the Mountie's and Clemson Tiger's biggest
fan.
Cheering the home teams is the next best thing to
coaching, according to Grissom, who dropped out of
Clemson University before he realized his coaching
dream. He fell in love with the boss's daughter and
went to work as a plumber’s helper at Ben T. Goforth
Plumbing.
When football season is underway, Bill glories in
the roar of the crowds and the excitement of a
Clemson game. He never misses a home game and he
dresses in style-- Clemson orange and purple.
For every Mountaineer game Bill puts on black
and gold and he and Dave Butler film the games
which can immediately be shown via a VCR and a
television set. Not so in the early days. Without
video, the 8 mm tapes had to be processed in
Spartanburg, S.C. and bused to Kings Mountain for
the coaches to use in practice sessions with football
players.
Times have also changed in the plumbing busi-
ness. Today Grissom is president of Ben T. Goforth
Plumbing. He and wife, Claudia Goforth Grissom,
bought the company from her father last March.
Although Bill still crawls under a house on a win-
ter day to fix pipes, he knows the business from both
sides of the desk--as a repairman and also as an exec-
utive. Licensed in 1973, Bill has seen major improve-
ments and diversification in the business which was
See Grissom, Page 12-A
BILL GRISSOM
Platform speakers at the Martin Luther King community birthday observance Monday are pictured
from left Aaron Allen, KMHS senior, KMHS Principal Jackie Lavender, Supt. Dr. Bob McRae, Rev.
Albert Perkins, who delivered the sermon, Rev. Pruella Kilgore, Dr. Eric Faust, Mayor Scott Neisler, Rev.
Billy Houze, Rev. Dewey Smith, at podium, and Rev. D. C. Wilson.
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Kings Mountain, N.C. 28086 +35¢
Only 20 sign
up at meeti
Although only 20 families
signed up for water at a public
meeting Monday night, Cleveland
County Sanitary District has told
Oak Grove residents that water can
be be provided as early as summer.
Some 125 residents of Oak
Grove Community packed the Oak
Grove Fire Department Monday
night to hear Mike Richardson,
manager of the water authority in
Lawndale, explain the water ser-
vice project being offered to 275
households, part of a long-term ex-
pansion effort that by 1996 should
reach about 8,000 households
along an approximate 500 miles of
water main.
A number of residents volun-
teered to canvass the community in
the next three to four weeks.
One woman in the audience said
she had been without water for
several years, carrying it from her
son's home since her well dried up.
"This might be grasping at straws
but you'll do anything to get wa-
ter," she said. The lady said she had
been told that the cost would be
prohibitive for Kings Mountain or
Shelby to supply the water but was
excited about the prospect of get-
tint e00d drinking wal:= © so
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to locate their residencesion water
maps provided by him and other
Water District officials, including
Building of
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projected area to s
interested in applyi
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The Oak Grove
households on Sto
from the road's ink
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south to Reliance Electr
households on Oak Grove Roa.
from the intersection with Kellom
Drive east to the intersection with
Ware Phifer Circle and includes
Ware Phifer Circle, Wave Road,
Bell Road to Wave Road, Hardin
Drive, Wooding Place and Hoyle
Road and state roads numbers
2617, 2621, 2163, and 2610.
Richardson said the water au-
thority will continue to hold com-
munity meetings as its expansion
project continues and indicated the
district would be coming to
Midpines near Kings Mountain.
Neither Kings Mountain or Shelby
are included in the water district,
which merged in 1989 with
Piedmont Metropolitan Water
‘and is a public body goyv-
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See Water, Page 12-A
in KM in '91
The building business was off
during 1991, down slightly from
1990, according to permit fees
breakdown supplied by Dottie
Elkins, secretary in the Codes
Department of the City of Kings
Mountain.
The months of February and
August were the biggest building
months, according to the property
valuations.
In February 1991 the month's
valuation was $1,282,900 and in
August the valuation was
$1,185,441.
In February 1990, the month's
valuation was $360,953 and in
August was $405,565.
Month by month the fees break-
down for 1991 valuation was:=
January, $163,744; February, $1, :
282,900; March $306,900; April =
$158,906; May $492,405; June:
$576,140.68; July $661,050;-
August, $1,185,441; September
$733,250; October $835,250;
November $251,000; December,
$560,920.15 for a grand total of
$7,107,906.83.
In 1990 the permits breakdown
month by month was: January
$1,716,038; February $360,953;
March $395,661; April $367,185;
May $595,050; June $871,831;
July $305,420; August $405,565;
See Building, Page 12-A
24 years after death,
King's dream lives on
Twenty-four years after the
death of Martin Luther King Jr., a
new generation of Americans who
favor justice over injustice and
equality over inequality must con-
tinue the struggle for peace, said
speakers at the annual community
observance of King's birthday
Monday in Bames Auditorium.
Nearly 300 people heard the
speeches and joined in the familiar
"We Shall Overcome" and the
National Anthem for the Black
Nation, "Lift Every Voice and
Sing." A choir representing the
black churches in the community
sang special anthems.
Prayers for peace and thanksgiv-
ing for King's life were said by lo-
cal ministers.
"Now is the time for us to caich
the spirit of King and make a dif-
ference for all mankind,” said guest
minister Rev. Albert Perkins, who
challenged church people to come
down from thc mountain and help
those suffering in the valley.
Perkins compared the late slain
civil rights leader to God's prophet
Moses and used the sermon topic,
"Mountain Top Experience from
Deuteronomy 34, the story of
God's showing the Promised Land
to Moses.
“King loved all people, not just
blacks, and shared their sufferings,
hopes and dreams,” said Perkins,
who called King the voice of the
century which the world listened
to because he spoke the truth.
Perkins said that people are still
blinded today with racial indiffer-
ence. "Grab onto to this generation
and give them hope," he said.
Mayor Scott Neisler called King
the shaper of Constitutional frce-
doms in America. "It behooves us
to make a difference,” he said.
Dr. Eric Faust, past president of
Kings Mountain Ministerial
Association, praised Dr. King and
said his message is just as neces-
sary today as they were 24 years
ago.
Dr. Bob McRae, Superintendent
of Schools, called King a worthy
hero for young people and KMHS
Principal Jackie Lavender said it
was. fitting that Kings Mountain
celebrate King's philosophy of love
and his message of commitment.
Aaron Allen, president of the
KMHS student body, brought
greetings.
Rev. Billy Houze, a member of
the KM school board, said that
King's message still rings in the
minds and conscience of all
Americans who favor justicc and
cquality but that racial bigotry and
hatred are still alive and well, He
said the purpose of the scrvice was
for local citizens to join to consoli-
date their cnergics and be chal-
lenged to action. "Join hands, no
man is free until all men are free,”
he said.
Other ministers on the program
were Rev. Dewey Smith, Rev. M.
L. Campbell, Rev. D. C. Wilson,
Rev. Stellic Jackson, and Rev.
Pruclla Kilgore.
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