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VOL. 105 NO. 12
Kings Mountain was soaked by nearly 2 1/2 inches
of rain Tuesday but fared much better than adjoining
counties.
More rain is in the forecast through Saturday, ac-
cording to local weatherman Kenneth Kitzmiller,
who said Kings Mountain citizens may see some sun-
shine Sunday.
: The Kings Mountain Police Department reported
minor flooding of some streets but no major weather
problems.
Karl Moss, the city's Superintendent of Public
Works, said no service calls came into his department
but storm drains overflowing on South Battleground
Avenue caused a few problems for motorists. Moss
said that workers with the Department of
Transportation put up signs alerting motorists of high
waters.
"The money spent by the city on drainage prob-
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lems over the past several years has really paid off,"
said Moss, who said he observed some high water in
the Bridges Drive area where storm drainage im-
provements have been made. "It's a far cry from
problems we have experienced in the past when
heavy rainstorms hit, J
No warnings of severe weather conditions were re-
ported to Kings Mountain via the city's weather ser-,
vice network.
For the past six years Kings Mountain has used
Weather Services of Bedford, Massachusetts which
positions a satellite operation over the Asheville area
and relays weather information to municipalities and p
utility companies over a wide section of the
Piedmont. Weather information is faxed to the city's
public works building during regular working hours.
After hours, the information is sent to Moss at his
See Weather, 11-A
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y basketball team will be inducted
The sixth annual Kings Mountain Chamber of
Jd Commerce Sports Hall of Fame Banquet will be held
Monday, March 29 at 7 p.m. at the Kings Mountain
Community Center.
/ Mickey Marvin, former All-Pro guard with the
Oakland Raiders, will be the guest speaker. Tickets are
$10 each and are available at the Chamber of
Commerce, Kings Mountain Herald, McGinnis
Department Store and Carolina State Bank. Tickets
will also be sold at the
door.
Kings Mountain People
Inductees include
the 1945 Kings Mountain
High men's basketball
The chirping of Carolina blue
parakeets drowns out the crackle of
CNN news on television and the
chatter of five or six old-timers sit-
ting around the cash register in
Hardin's Grocery in Grover.
Bill Little and his colorful para-
keeis are as much a trademark as
the old country store he owns and
operates in the curve of Cleveland
Avenue 500 yards from his family
home. Little fusses over his
feathered friends more than the
mothers of the tiny parakeets
which are an important part of the
Little family.
The popular proprietor has been
a hometown grocer for nearly 50
He breeds and pampers as many
as 900 parakeets, a hobby and oc-
cupation he inherited from his
good friend M.J. Hardin who was
also his foster father for a number
of years. Little went to live with
Mr. and Mrs. Hardin as a student
when his parents moved to Miami,
FL in 1923. Neighbors and former
teachers Meldonia Livingstone and
‘Ophelia Rollins, who helped
‘young Little with his homework,
encouraged him to stay in Grover.
"I would get my cornbread and
sweet potato and sit on the porch
See Little, 12-A
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Grover grocer Bill Little is pictured with some of his little featured friends in his country store. He calls some of the birds
Carolina Blue because of their unusual markings.
team, the late Coman
Falls, Richard Gold and
Freddy Smith.
The '45 basketball
team was Kings
Mountain's first unbeaten
team. It won 15 straight
games and its closest
game was a 13-point vic-
tory over Lincolnton.
The Mountaineers scored
a 84-13 victory over
Cherryville which still is MICKEY MARVIN
the most one-sided victory in school history.
Members of the team were Bob Neill, Dub Hicks,
Jim Hullender, Jim Herndon, Houston Black, Bill
Dettmar, Bill Cashion, Joe Hord, Eugene Mitchem and
L.P. Stowe Jr. Don Parker was the coach.
Coman Falls starred in football, baseball and basket-
ball at KMHS in the late twenties and also played sev-
eral years of professional baseball. He was a perennial
golf champion at Kings Mountain Country Club and
baseball at KMHS from 1962-65 and led the
Mountaineers to Southwestern Conference champi-
onships in all three sports. He went on to become a
first team All-American second baseman at Florida
State University, where he set nine school records.
Freddy Smith has amassed over 700 victories in a
28-year career in dirt track auto racing. He now resides
in Baton Rouge, La., where he drives for Gulf Valve
Service. He has won three STARS (Short Track Auto
Racing Series) World Championships.
Kings Mountain High School wrestling coach Steve
Moffitt will receive the Special Achievement Award
which is given each year for team or individual suc-
cess during the previous calendar year. Last year,
Moffitt coached the Mountaineers to their third
straight Western N.C. championship, becoming the
City Council to meet Tuesday
of Fairview Street, will appeal to = at 105 E. Mountain Street. The
Kings Mountain City Council is
expected Tuesday to approve an
engineering proposal and an agree-
ment with the state Department of
Transportation to run water lines
down Dixon School Road to the I-
85 Rest Stop.
The item is on the agenda for the
March meeting at 7:30 p.m. at City
Hall.
Members of the Utility commit-
tee finalized the fee proposals at a
meeting Wednesday afternoon and
also approved a national gas rate
incentive ordinance which will also
be presented to the commissioners
for consideration Tuesday night.
Two Kings Mountain gas cus-
tomers, Robert Corbin, of East
Mountain Street, and Jeff Gregory,
County Board
to add seats
Cleveland County commission-
ers voted 4-1 Monday to expand
the board of commissioners to sev-
en seats, with five elected from dis-
tricts.
The move was not unexpected,
as several commissioners had cam-
paigned for the plan during the re-
cent elections and the idea had
been under study for some time.
Since 1966, the board has seated
five commissioners elected at
large.
The redistricting plan, if ap-
proved by the state legislature and
U. S. Justice Department, will cre-
ate one majority district, District I,
which comprises 60 percent of the
black population.
Before the commissioners’ vote,
Rev. John Nathaniel Osborne, pres-
ident of the Cleveland County
See Board, 11-A
Council for more time to pay gas
bills, both maintaining that the
city's error in late billing places a
financial burden on them.
Finance Officer Jeff Rosencrans
said that gas service was not re-
quested when other services were
turned on at both homes but both
families have been getting natural
gas for months and were just re-
cently billed by the city.
Rosencrans acknowledged the
city's error.
Gregory owes $958 for the peri-
od from July 1, 1991 and has been
given four months to pay it.
Monthly payments at $284.62,
for four months have been set up
house has two gas meters.
Gregory says the city didn't bill
him for 19 months. He will ask
Council to give him six months to
pay the back bills. The Gregory.
family moved from their home on
Fairview Street to Lincolnton April
29, 1991 and returned here July 1,
1991.
Corbin says that since the city
didn't bill him for 14 months that
the city should give him the same
amount of time to pay the back
bill.
Rosencrans says Council set a
policy of requiring payment of
back bills in 90 days.
first coach to ever accomplish that feat.
Ronnie Franks joins staff
of Carolina State Bank
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Ronald L. Franks has joined
CSB Financial Corporation, a
wholly owned subsidiary of
Carolina State Bank, as Director
of Personnel Investments.
He will be responsible for pro-
viding Tax Advantaged products
for the markets Carolina State
Banks services.
A native of Cleveland County,
Franks graduated from Kings
Mountain High School. He holds
a B.S. degree in Business
Administration from Gardner-
Webb University. He has worked
in the financial services industry
for over 18 years. He and his wife,
Rita, live on Moss Lake.
"Ronnie Franks will be a big
asset to the bank. He has a knowl-
edge of the markets we serve and
knowledge of the Tax advantaged
products we will be offering," said
Senior Vice President Jay Rhodes.
"Ronnie Franks is an individual
who enjoys working with people
to assist them with their financial
needs, a real people person,” said
Rhodes.
Carolina State Bank is a state
chartered bank which opened in
April, 1991. The bank has three
office locations: Forest City,
Kings Mountain and Shelby.
Franks will have office hours in
all three locations.
KMHS students get expert
advice on computer careers
Computer programming offers
an opportunity for diversification
in careers for young people, ac-
-cording to senior IBM program-
mers Chris Zach and Michael
Brodie.
Students in Kathy Goforth's
computer applications class and
Tim Echols computer math class
got a lesson from computer experts
Tuesday.
One third of the 10th, 11th and
12th graders in the class said they
owned a computer and a majority
of the students said they wanted to
take more computer classes after
high school.
Brodie pointed out that comput-
cr programming is even more di-
versified today than it was when he
was a student at the University of
Colorado.
Zack, a graduate of North
Carolina State, majored in comput-
er engineering.
Both young men came to the
Charlotte IBM offices from
Research Triangle Park in Raleigh.
Wearing business suits and ties,
they displayed buttons on their
lapels which read, "It's All About
Change." Zack explained that most
students think that IBM employees
wear coat and ties to the office cv-
ery day. Not so, he said. They dress
casual on the job but keep their
professional attitude.
Responding to questions about
salary, they said that most comput-
cr professionals carn good salarics
and also contract for some pro-
gramming jobs. Free lance comput-
cr programmers also are paid roy-
altics for software packages. IBM
See Computers, 11-A