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The Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce inducted four men in-
to its Sports Hall of Fame Monday night at the Community Center.
Gary Stewart, left, chairman of the Hall of Fame Committee, and Art
Four join KM
Four men were inducted into the
Kings Mountain Chamber of
Commerce Sports Hall of Fame at
the fifth annual dinner and induc-
tion ceremony Monday night at the
Community Center.
Baseball greats Hugh "Red"
Ormand and Eugene Goforth were
joined by basketball star Otis Cole
and. former. KMHS. football coach
Everette "Shu" Carlton.
Art Weiner, former All-
American receiver at UNC and
KMHS football coach in 1951, was
. the guest speaker.
All four inductees were labeled
AS WINNErs.
Janie, 90,
When company comes at Kings
Mountain Convalescent Center
Janie Jackson, 90, greets them with
a big smile.
The Kings Mountain woman,
honored on her 90th birthday
Sunday with two parties, joined in
the singing of her favorite Psalms
with other members of Boyce
Memorial ARP Church and remi-
nisced about family history with 25
family members.
“Janie is the historian of the
family," says her sister Mrs. John
Hoyle of Shelby.
‘Ormand, whose award was
given posthumously to his sister
Mrs. Sara Kate Lewis, was a base-
ball star at Trinity College (now -
Duke University) from 1921-23.
He led the Methodists in hitting all
three years and was All-State two
years. He went on to play profes-
sional baseball at Reading, Pa., and
Kings Mountain to become a play-
er-manager for several successful
semi-pro teams at Margrace Mill.
"Hugh was a three-sport star, but
his love was baseball,” said his
nephew Charlie Carpenter, who in-
ducted Crmand. "Iidn' get to sed
still going str
It isn't long before a visitor to
Janie's comfortable room soon
finds out that the Jacksons came to
America in 1770 from Ireland.
Janie has assembled the Jackson
family tree, tracing the family's lin-
eage to David Jackson.
And Janie is not only proud of
her heritage and Kings Mountain
roots but her long service to the old
Margrace Mill, where she worked
in the weaving plant for many
years, and her church, where she
has been an active member all her
life until three years ago when she
Kings Mountain People
Thursday, April 30, 1992
Weiner, back, guest speaker, are pictured with inductees Eugene
Goforth, Sara Kate Lewis (representing the late Hugh Ormand), Shu
Carlton and Otis Cole. More photos on page 1-B.
him play much baseball. My
biggest sports memories are of
quail hunting. He really loved to
hunt."
Former KMHS basketball coach
Bob Hussey, now an assistant at
Virginia Tech, inducted his former
player Otis Cole. Cole led Hussey's
three teams at KMHS to a com-
Southwestern Conference champi-
onships.
"Otis Cole never played on a
losing team," Hussey said. "He was
not only a great player but he made
everybody else better. He was very
yaselfish..a team play4y He would
entered the nursing home.
Janie loves to do needlework but
"some" failing eyesight prohibits
that activity now but she continues
to read from the Psalms and other
church literature. Her hearing is so
keen that she can detect her broth-
er Howard Jackson's footsteps
when he walks the hall to her
room. Although+in a wheel chair,
she never misses the church ser-
vices at the nursing home and al-
ways asks for Psalms to be sung.
Sunday her family cut a birthday
See Janie, 3-A
Hall of Fame
accept any role you gave him."
Cole was a natural guard but had
to move to the center position for
his junior and senior years because
of the team's lack of height.
"It's not how big you are, but it's
how big you play," Hussey re-
marked. "We had good guards but
no inside game. But Otis stepped
..Beaumont, Tex..beforereturning10.««shidedarecond.of 65-7 and. two.....Lorward to become our center and,
the oily thing that changed was
that wi went from an okay team to
a chanigionship team."
Cole/said he accepted the award
with a 'sense of humility. This is a
specid; tribute...the most presti-
JANIE JACKSON
By ELIZABETH STEWART
of The Herald Staff
The Kings Mountain District
School's social worker's reputation
asa "giver" is well known,
Hallie Blanton listens to prob-
lems that she can't solve at times
and can't leave them at school
when quitting time comes.
"ts a profession that I love but
one that is hard to separate from
my personal life," said Blanton, the
school system's first social worker
who came to her present job 17
years ago from the Gaston County
Department of Social Services.
She estimates that she serves ap-
year's time and sees neglect, abuse,
and hunger. For seven years she
has volunteered at Cleveland
County Residential Services and
currently is the president of that
agency which provides a home for
mentally retarded people who can't
get the special care they require in
their own homes or with relatives.
The "hats" Hallie wears are ide-
ally tied in with her work as a care
giver. She directs people of all ages
to agencies that can help them and
works onc-on-onc with special
children.
Chairman of the Kings
proximately 600 children during a
Hallie can't separate
work from private life
Mountain Crisis Ministry Board,
she is in the position of assisting
school children and their families
in getting money for rent pay-
ments, medicine, utilities, and food
on the table. Hungry children can't
learn, says Hallie.
Growing up in Kings Mountain
the daughter of Hal Ward, now of
Homestead, Fla., and Margaret
Williams, she had the propensity
for helping people. She majored in
sociology at Lenoir-Rhyne College
and earned her graduate degree at
UNC in Chapel Hill. Going to
work for the Kings ‘Mountain sys-
tem, from which she graduated,
was natural for her. She has
worked for three superintendents,
Don Jones, Bill Davis, and Bob
McRae.
Her keen interest in children
spurred her involvement in the
Kings Mountain = Concert
Association of which she is presi-
dent. She helped organize the asso-
ciation that brought the Symphony
to Kings Mountain and works be-
hind the scenes for two concerts
cach year, onc for children and onc
for the public. The Charlotte
Symphony will be presenting a
public concert Thursday night at 8
See Blanton, 2-A
HALLIE BLANTON
Kings Mountain, Ni |
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county EDC
City Council Tuesday night
bought a $3,000 seat on the soon-
to-be new Cleveland County
Economic Commission and also
entered into a mutual aid agree-
ment with Kings Mountain Police
Department and its sister town of
Grover's Police Department.
Explaining that the county board
of commissioners recently en-
dorsed a bold plan that will change
the *~ way the Economic
Development Commission oper-
ates, City Manager George Wood
recommended the Council join the
effort. Wood also endorsed KMPD
Chief Warren Goforth and Grover
Chief Paul Cash's mutual assis-
tance agreement. There is no ex-
penditure involved in the Grover
agreement.
Mayor Scott Neisler said that
Joe Hendricks' retirement from the
EDC board comés as the commis-
sion is poised for a substantial re-
structuring including more munici-
pality input and more control for
the commission's new members.
Hendrick began his career in local
government in the early 1950s
working as city clerk and treasurer
for the City of Kings Mountain.
Now solely an advisory board
whose director reports to the coun-
Lty.commission,.the. new. EDC. will ..
oversee the work of its staff and
will include representatives from
three municipalities, Shelby, Kings
Mounfzin, and Boiling Springs, the
Clev#®ind County Chamber, and
thej Cleveland County Sanitary
Disc The number of members
5 ; $ i 5 § fo %
Wald got Limitehl to! nine. THY.
countyy board of commissioners
would fund they balance of the op-
erationpl cost afid would appoint
four non staff members. Smaller
municipalities in the county may
be offered one, non voting seat on
the board.
County Commissioner Charlie
Harry had made the proposal to the
county commission which it unani-
mously accepted the same day
Hendrick announced his retirement
from the $64,290 annual post he
took in 1988 after 20 years as
county manager. Harry said the
changes would enhance the effec-
See City, 3-A -
ordinance.
is approved
Corry says stiffer rules are needed
[it not unreasonable to require that
ic use
franchises to give the attorney time
New cab
Taxi cab operators may find the
city's newly-adopted ordinance
harsh but City Attorney Mickey
state-wide to protect the public rid-
ing in cabs and keep down liability
costs to cities that franchise taxi
operations. :
Corry drafted the 15-page ordi-
nance amending Chapter
17," Vehicles for Hire," of the
Kings Mountain Municipal Code
and it was passed unanimously by
City Council Tuesday night.
The new ordinance spells out
that Kings Mountain taxi drivers
must present with applications a
copy of a recent medical examina-
tion. Corry said he knows of no
municipality that requires drug
testing for cab drivers but thought
cab operators undergo a physical
examination which would answer
the question of alcoholic or narcot-
A much more detailed annual
‘cab inspection is also required. The
ordinance insists that cabs run
properly and be properly identified
with the names’ visible to police
and the public. The driver's picture
must be.prominently displayed in-
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schedules. Copies of the rate
schedules must also accompany the
application.
The ordinance does not limit the
number of cabs which can be oper-
ated in town and Councilman Fred
Finger asked why not. "Cab fees
will have to go up for the drivers to
comply with these rules and no one
will make any profit if we don't
limit the cabs," he said.
The action Tuesday was the re-
sult of a 60-day moratorium on taxi
to rewrite the ordinance.
See Taxi, 3-A
State primary
Kings Mountain and No. 4
Township voters will join their
neighbors from across North
Carolina at the polls Tuesday in the
May Democratic and Republican
Primary contests.
The polls open at 6:30 a.m. and
close at 7:30 p.m.
Precinct polling places are: East
Kings Mountain at the Community
Center; West Kings Mountain at
The Armory; Grover at the Rescue
Squad building; Bethware at David
Baptist Church fellowship hall; and
Waco at Waco Town Hall.
The official Democratic Primary
ballot for federal, state and county
offices lists 46 candidates for 14
races.
The official Republican Primary
ballot for federal and state offices
lists 19 candidates for seven races.
The non-partisan Board of
Education ballot lists five candi-
dates for three positions up for
grabs on the county school board.
They arc Hoyt Bailey, Charles H.
Beam Jr., Robert Cabaniss, Doris
Davis, and Tommy Greene.
Voter interest is high in this arca
in the new District 37 Senatorial
racc where former ninc-term State
Scnator J. Ollic Harris of Kings
Mountain is challenged by Kings
Mountain resident Bruce Scism.
set Tuesday
The winner will face the winner of
the Republican contest between
Dennis Davis of Lattimore and
Dick Hoagand of Forest City in
November. The 37th Senate dis-
trict, where there is no incumbent,
now includes most of Shelby,
Kings Mountain, Grover, Boiling’
Springs, Waco, Lattimore, Casar,
and all of Rutherford County,
The race by 11 Democrats for
three seats on the Cleveland
“County board of commissioners is
also a hot contest which may or
may not be settled in the Primarics.
If runoffs arc neccessary, they
would be held on June 2. The three
Democrat nominees will face three
Republican challengers in
November.
Voters may vote for three in the
county commissioner race which
includes Jerry O. Adams, Doyne
Allison, Joc Cabaniss, Bob
Chadwick, Cecil D. Dickson,
Coleman Goforth, Sam H. Gold.
Gale Kirk, Robert Morgan Jr., of
Kings Mountain, Jack Spangler,
and E. T. Van Hoy. The incumbent
commissioners are board chairman
Cabaniss, Spangler, and
Republican Charlie Harry.
Of the 11 candidates, a majority
See Primary, 3-A