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JONAS hn from Page 1-A Wtrades when the station first opened "at 1215 Cleveland Avenue. His I wifc, Doris, was bookkeeper and i onas handled virtually everything else, including advertising sales. A native of Boiling Springs, #8 Jonas was attending Gardner-Webb College when the chance came to work at WIS-TV in Spartanburg on | a part-time basis. Scheduling, pro- gramming, and running an air shift ‘were all in a day's work for young Bridges. After high school classes in ‘Boiling Springs he had worked ) 3 part time at Shelby Station WOHS, then the only radio station in Cleveland County, and also at a { } Forest City station. His job was re- ‘porting play by play for the Shelby major league farm club games, now the Western Carolinas League. His co-anchor was Kays Gary, "Charlotte Observer columnist, then &/ sports editor at the Shelby Daily if Star. i Sports broadcasting was a natu- ~ ral, then and now, for Bridges. Jonas suffered a "busted nose" {while playing college baseball. Last year he entered the hospital as an outpatient for nose surgery. * Doctors discovered the tumor in its earliest stages growing in his , throat. He required no treatments. It was the second time that Jonas had been in the hospital for major surgery in two years. In 1989 he entered the hospital for angioplas- tic surgery and doctors discovered a blockage. He underwent emer- gency triple by-pass surgery. "I'm lucky, but it's rough," said Jonas, who understandably misses his contact with radio listeners. Before the throat surgery, Jonas was experiencing some hoarseness which he blamed on talking too much on radio. Before his heart surgery, Jonas said he had experi- enced slight chest pains but blamed that on stress and promised himself he would slow down. Slowing down is painful in itself for a busy person. Jonas recalls that he worked seven days a week to build the growing radio station in town. He takes pride in the com- munity service program he initiat- ed Tuesday night when the station * broadcast the first oy council Kingsmen Gospel Quartet of Asheville and has always featured gospel and country music on the air, a popular feature of WKMT. One of the first members of the Kingsmen group was J. D. Sumner of Sunshine Boys fame. Jonas said he had to make a decision back then to either sing or stay in the ra- $8 dio business. His choice was radio. ~\ Bridges is backed up by an out- \ standing crew, he says. Jim Arp, music director who features country music on the air, has been with Bridges for 23 years. + Jerry Bedsole, a 15-year veteran, features gospel music on his radio shows. Gene Austin, also of Kings Mountain, is D. J. for the night shift. The local station, which broadcasts seven days a week, went nightly five years ago and is on the air from 6 a.m. to midnight. Southern gospel and country music are favorites of ‘listeners in radio land and the disc jockeys and an- nouncers play requests. Alan Riffle, former professional baseball pitcher, recently joined the station to give expanded sports coverage. Riffle played AAA ball before he injured his arm. Riffle earned a law degree from Duke University and taught law’ at Western Carolina University but found that sports broadcasting was : his field. Longtime friend of Jonas, ! he came to Kings Mountain to join his staff. Bridges is airiod to Doris Summerlin Bridges and they reside on Moss Lake. They are members of First Baptist Church. Bridges was a city commissioner from Ward V in 1971-75. Their son, Rob Bridges, is district manager for Jones Intercable. Their daughter, Pamela Sardinia of Charlotte, is an aerobic instructor. Both children are communications majors. Sardinia formerly operated her fa- .ther's radio station in Rock Hill. Producing rodeos and playing golf are hobbies that Jonas plans to do now that he is slacking down on his work day. He reports to work every day as usual but has quit punching the clock. Bridges calls himself a sports nut and he plans to continue to be bi Kings Mountain's number one | sports fan in the stands but not at + the microphone. Slowing down is hard. At 61, Bridges plans to keep his heart in radio to assure Kings Mountain ra- dio listeners his own special brand of entertainment. i 4 it HN 1 : pi a y oyfmora ; Ly 5 ne! Yorigindr © BARRETT From Page 1-A clean up all the debris in front of his building," said neighbor Preston Childers. 'It's still there." The Compact residents opposed the request for rezoning last year and both the planning board and city council sided with them. "We're not here to oppose a busi- nessman's use of his property but wc arc concerned about the future usec and what the outcome of re- zoning could mean to the ncighbor- hood," said Charles Stevens. "The Compact community has stood for 100 years. Will it be a residential area or a business area?" Steve Poole, of Barrett Floor Covering, said that other business- es now exist in the area, including a greenhouse, service station and tanning salon. "We're just asking for more room to give service and 3/4 of these people here tonight are our customers." Ruby Barrett said she and her husband, Jack, and their three chil- dren work in the business and have plans for expanding, doing archi- tectural remodeling and computeri- zation. Walter Stevens, of the Barrett firm, said the company has no plans for outside storage, which under the city's zoning laws would mcan the crection of buffers. Faunce suggested that Barrett do some housckeeping. "This is a dif- ficult problem with no happy solu- tion. You have three different tracts." Joc Smith pointed out that general business zoning requires the erection of a cight feet high sol- id wooden fence. Lou Ballew said she saw chil- dren playing ncar the business gate. Neighbors usc the roads through the property and old play- ground areca to get to homes and a nearby church. She asked both the Mount Olive Church and the busi- ness owners to work out their problems together and come up with a workable solution. "I have to vote with these church people. The city hasn't complicd with its own rules and is in all kinds of violations because we don't enforce zoning," said Pructte. At the urging of other members, both Pructte and Allison withdrew their original motions to give Barrett 30 days, instead of six months if the request is denied, to get his plats together. Board Secretary Gene White said the city has a right to enforce regulations in the R-20 use (Compact) district with limited powers as far as clean up and health hazards arc concerned. He said that if’ the Barrett property is rezoned to GB the city would have morc authority. "Property owners arc taken to court for violations and the city is beginning to strictly enforce its codes,” he said in re- sponsc to question of Pructtc. Charles Stevens reminded the board that the Compact ncighbor- hood is outside the city limits but in the onc mile perimeter arca. "We don't even have voting rights in town." White said the residents could force the city to get the arca cleaned up. He said the city is at- iempting to comply with all the or- dinances on the books. "We have a lot of catching up to do.” "We kinda lost heart after you denied our request last year but have made some progress," said Mrs. Barrett. White called the Barretts inno- cent victims. He said the Barreits bought the Compact School after it was used for commercial use and then the city annexed the areca. The Barretts arc now bound by city zoning rules in a non-conforming use area, which means they can re- main there but can't expand or add on to the present building without Thursday, April 2, 1992-THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Page 13A "We're looking now at Barrett's entire parcel of six acres and what we need is a clearer definition of the plat in question. If he will re- vise it maybe we all can work: this thing out," said Faunce. Although the planning board can make recommendations, the final authority on rezoning is city coun- cil. changing the zoning to general business. White says that when builders come to the city for per- mits the zoning is checked. "The city is fighting something that has been neglected for years but we're making an cffort,” said White. 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