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COMAN FALLS One of KM's Best Athletes -6-A GROVER BOARD Accused of Censoring the News SPORTS HALL OF FAME Tickets Are On Sale VOL. 104 NO. 11 2-month school discuss West School will hold meetings next week on the Year Round School proposal. All meetings will be held in the West (Central) School cafeteria and it is important that all parents attend their grade level meetings. The meeting schedule is as fol- lows: 10-A Monday, March 16 - 7 p.m. - Perspective kindergarten and cur- rent kindergarten parents. Anyone who will have a child in kinder- garten at West next year should at- tend. Tuesday, March 17 - 7 p.m, - First and second grade parents. Wednesday, March 18 - 3:15 - Meetings next week at West School Third, fourth and fifth grade par- ents. Thursday, March 19 at 3:15, and Monday, March 23 at 7 p.m., school personnel will be available for all parents who are unable to at- tend the above-mentioned meet- ings. Saturday hail leaves its mark Dixon Community residents Jackie Hughes and Dee Stewart picked up hail in their yards and froze it to show their neighbors, who like them, couldn't believe their eyes Saturday afternoon. Hail, from the size of marbles to golf balls, rained over the Dixon and Bethlehem Communities in the Greater Kings Mountain area. None was reported in the Kings Mountain city limits. The sudden storm on a bright, sunny afternoon ripped through the area about 3 p.m. along with heavy rain, A funnel cloud ‘was reported in Swainsville in the eastern end of the county near Lattimore, al- though no damage was reported. "That's the most hail I've ever seeit,! said Mrs. George Stewart, 76. Hughes said the lack of wind was also amazing. "The path of the storm must have been in the area of the Dixon- Bethlehem-Grover area," said in- suranceman Bob Maner, who said 15-20 houses and automobiles in the Bethlehem area were damaged by hail ranging from pea size to * golf ball size. A spokesman for Warlick- Hamrick Insurance Agency, said adjustors were busy checking homes this week in the White Plains and Stewart Road of the Dixon Community but more cars were damaged than residences. "The damage isn't great but there are quite a few cars damaged," she said. Nationwide Insurance Agency also reported receiving claims for hail damages to cars and houses, mostly in the Grover and Shelby area. No reports for damages were filed by people living inside the city limits of Kings Mountain, they said. 5 With the lack of any snow this winter, the sight of the hail was the closest to winter-like weather many residents have seen this year. City Manager George Wood said a mild winter for the second winter in Kings Mountain would mean a very conservative budget for the City of Kings Mountain in 1992- 93 : "I'm praying for some winter weather,” said Wood. The. city's budget depends largely on utility payments by gas, water and elec- tric users. "It makes we wonder about what it says in the Bible about the end of time coming when no one can tell the seasons." Club, Grover Counc GROVER - A flap over city board policy on use of the new community room between the city council and the Woman's Club sur- faced at Tuesday's meeting when club vice president Kathy Neely read a letter from the club. "We feel we had our hands slapped by council when it nixed our kitchen project and we just want to work for the community and with council and get any nega- tive feelings in the open and pick up where we left off in the commu- nity," she said. Eight of the 15 active members of the club were present. Mayor Ronald Queen denied any negative feelings by the board who pledged its support to the club. Queen said the community room policy is necessary because other groups besides the Woman's Club use the building and supplies left there are the responsibility of the town and must become the property of the town. Mrs. Neely said the club donaied flatwear, glasses, pitchers, pans, trays and a 40-cup coffeemaker at a Burger King breaks ground for restaurant Rain and mud at the site didn't dampen the enthusiasm of Burger King officials who broke ground Tuesday morning for a new restau- rant at 717 York Road. The downpour of rain came sec- onds after Contractor Jeff Denton, Mayor Pro Tem Norma Bridges, and co-owner Jim Green used new shovels to break the ground on 1.08 acres between Family Storage and Baucom Chevrolet. Bill Reule Sr., commercial loca- tion consultant, estimated that, weather permitting, the new Kings Mountain business will open in about 90 days. It will be a standard Burger King but No. 19 in North Carolina for brothers Bob and Jim Green of Union County. Jim Green said the standard Burger King will be a first in Cleveland County but with a new decor package, a 1950's theme in the dining room. Green said that 80-100 people will be hired, some on a full-time and some on a part-time basis. The fa- cility will also include a play- ground. Patsy Roberts of Stanley will manage the new Burger King and Marc Rudnick and Brian Rains, both of Kings Mountain, have been hired as assistant managers. Richardson Turner of Knoxville, Tennessee is the general contract- ing firm for the $160,000 building. Bill Reule Sr. and Bill Reule Jr. handled the site selection and pur- chased the city permits for the owners. BB&T's Dan Ayscue of Kings Mountain and Bill Sudyk of Gastonia handled the financial ar- rangements. The Green brothers also own and operate B&J Restaurant and Times Food Systems Corporation as well as 18 Burger King facilities in Charlotte, Gastonia, Salisbury, Hickory, Concord, Kannapolis, Newton Conover, Lincolnton and Mocksville. Bill Reule Jr., vice president o William H. Reule Associates of Charlotte, said he appreciated the assistance of city engineer Tom Howard and other city officials in the site development and location. See Burger King, 2-A Thursday, March 12, 1992 By RENEE WALSER Of the Herald Staff Eleven concerned citizens spoke to the Kings Mountain Board of Education about their views on the year-round school issue at Monday night's March meeting of the board. Seven of the eleven spoke against instituting a year-round cal- endar gt West Elementary next Photos by Bryan Warren Area residents may not get to see a snow-covered lawn this winter, but Saturday's hail storm left them white for a few minutes, as shown in the upper photograph. Many people reported hail the size of golf balls. If you don't believe it, look at the lower photo which shows a hail stone beside of a golf ball. il at odds kitchen shower for the town hall ‘kitchen and wants to raise more money for more utensils. She said the club was told that items could not be stored in the kitchen and the board would further stock the kitchen. Mayor Pro Tem Sandra Ellis ex- plained the reason for the board's policy. "We must safeguard all the property. Any negativism is com- ing from within your organization, not from council," she said. KATHY NEELY BURGER KING BREAKS GROUND - Burger King broke ground for a new Kings Mountain restaurant Tuesday. From left, Mayor Pro Tem Norma Bridges, owner Jim Green, and contractor Jeff Denton. Kings Mountain, N.C. 28086 «35¢ year, and four spoke in favor of the change. The speakers were made up of both teachers and parents. Superintendent Bob McRae said he would present his recommenda- tion to the board in April. He added that he would strongly con- sider parents’ wishes in coming to his decision. “We've looked at a lot of reports -- both pro and con," McRae told the packed board room. " The re- By ELIZABETH STEWART of The Herald Staff The statistics are staggering: 837 calls to police involving domestic incidents in Kings Mountain in 1991. Already this year 102 do- mestic incidents have been investi- gated, including two homicides in the last two weeks which shocked the community. "In the last five years the calls we have responded to have been more violent than any I have seen in my career," said Chief of Police Warren Goforth. "It's going to get worse." Goforth said only 41 victims of assault in 1991 filed reports. Only 18 arrests were made. In most of the cases, the women victims didn't charge the suspect and if they did they dropped the charges. Decision of abused spouses and girlfriends not to seek protection from the law are not unique, say officers. Even when abuse victims report violence they often with- draw their complaints in court. And, in most cases, the women of- ten let the men move back in with them or drop assault charges out of fear, says Goforth. Goforth says two recent homi- ros ZO aT = wv wm tH hg =H oR ma oe views are mi 2G Oo Ss Parents need o = = es- tions iin i 2 = ~iea legitimate oe De The next § R= dll be grade levd SL = lar- ents to asce > lael about a dua <and school at Wes In a spe ast Thursday ev ym- See Domestic crime Ss on the rise "The calls...have been more violent than any I've seen in my career... It's going to get worse." Warren Goforth cides and a suicide in Kings Mountain were the results of love gone sour. Although police were aware of domestic problems in the two homicide cases, no charges had been preferred by the two vic- tims. Two Kings Mountain men, Daten Schenck) 21, of 206 NN. Cansler 8t., and Charles Francis Hardy, 35, of Groves St., are in Cleveland County Jail charged with the murder of their spouses. Dean Hamrick, 37, of Grover took his own life on December 30, 1991 after holding police at bay for near- ly five hours. Wanted for the mur- der of four people in Alexander County, including his former girl- friend, Hamrick ended 24 hours of See Crime, 3-A Grover considers zoning GROVER - County Planning Director Bill McCarter told Town officials Tuesday he will assist in developing a zoning ordinance for the town. McCarter, showing eight color coded maps of proposals for an in- dustrial corridor on I-85 and Highway 29 at the city limits, said those plans will undergo additional adjustments before they are pre- sented to the county board of com- missioners for approval. The proposal has been under de- velopment for a year by a task Kings Mountain People force which has targeted the corri- dor between Kings Mountain and Grover for zoning because of its current industrial use and potential for further growth. A public hear- ing was held in Kings Mountain re- cently at which 75 property owners and industry officials expressed varying concerns, all of which McCarter says will be incorporated in a final proposal. "This is the area that will be growing in the next 20 years and we need to look at zoning," said . See Zoning, Page 2-A The 'Dean’ of politics By ELIZABETH STEWART of The Herald Staff Politics is in Dean Westmoreland's blood. The new chairman of the Cleveland County Democratic Party, a retired Kings Mountain history and government teacher for 30 years, won't rule out a future in state politics. He ran a good show- ing for a state senate seat back in 1976 but decided against a runoff with the winner, his good friend Senator Helen Marvin. He got the political fever as a se- nior at Grover High School in 1952 when he worked in Adlai Stevenson's campaign for presi- dent. He said he thought the world had come to an end when Dwight D. Eisenhower won the election. Dean listens to the voters. "One vote counts, most elections are won by less than 5 percent of the voters" he told his Amcrican History and government students on many occasions at Kings Mountain High School and volun- teers at the Grover Precinct meet- DEAN WESTMORELAND ings he chaired at Grover Rescue Building for 20 years before he stepped down in April to become the party chairman. Westmoreland gets out the vote in his small town. "Government and politics are lo- cal," he said. "You vote for President of the U.S. but you cast your vote in small towns just like Grover, at town halls or church fel- lowship halls. The government is See Westmoreland, 3-A »,
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