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Si JE i Ap a Tr os enti vgn See Special Section on on championship baseball (Inside Today's Herald) eT nl So Lt Am, VOL. 105 NO. 25 City s Independence Day celebration July 3 at Community Center 3 ne KM's Stephen Fisher All-St - Since 1889 - Thursday, June 24, 1993 Kings Mountai TW AANAVA we th N NIK SONY agd1d Ss 001 98087 0 + gAV INOW AgvEE1T TVIEOR | § 11 { | geaRy Budget hearing calls for revised pay scale The proposed controversial re- zoning of' Ashley, Belvedere and Temple Park subdivisions which would ban the construction of more duplexes in those areas is on the agenda for Thursday's meeting of the Planning & Zoning Board at 7 p.m. at City Hall. Developers are opposing the change from R-8 to RS-6 because they want to build more duplex apartments. Residents want only single family housing in those ar- eas. Larry and Evelyn Hamrick are expected to again protest the inclu- sion in the zoning change of their property north of Temple Park. Hamrick maintained at the recent Council meeting that his property was bought to accommodate du- plexes and was zoned R-8. The new zoning designation will permit the building of only single family residences. City planning director Gene White said the new proposal would mean the creation of two new zon- ing districts, RS-6 and 8. Nothing but single family housing could be Controversial zoning matter on agenda built in the neighborhood but all existing setbacks would remain the same. If a house became destroyed for any reason, the owner could re- build the apartments. "No one would be penalized for existing legal non conforming use under the proposed plan," said White. Developers Hamrick, Mike Brown and Hal Plonk appeared at the recent meeting at City Council to protest the proposed changes. See Zoning, 3-A Life has taken on new meaning for 31-year-old Bobby Gene Short since he was diagnosed with cancer two months ago. Confident that his life is in the good hand of God, Short played on the floor of his mobile home in Jamestown Acres with his son and daughter and watched television, although nauseated after a chemotherapy treatment. The worst part of his illness, he says, is losing his temporary inde- pendence and not being able to provide the extra things for his a fourth grade student at Bethware School, and 12-year-old Jennifer, 8th grader at KM Middle School. "Life has been pretty much on hold for all of us because of the ex- pensive treatments, the almost dai- ly vaccines which my wife gives wife, Robin; 10-year-old Tonathan, Life takes on a new meaning for 31-vear-old cancer victim me and the regular trips to Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem," said Short. Even with health insurance, a small weekly disability check and a small amount of food stamps, the family's savings have dwindled during the health emergency. Cancer robbed Bobby of being the family breadwinner, a role he said he loved. He said he never liked to ask for help but now he hopes that a benefit yard sale at Major League Bowling Lanes on US 74 West Saturday will be a huge success. He hopes the dona- tions will cover his next trip to Winston-Salem, including lodging for the family. Short, in apparently good health all his life, started taking antibi- otics several months ago for epi- See Short, Page 7-A A reduction in proposed across-the-board raises for department heads and salaried employees earning more than $25,000 and a hike for employees earning less than $15,000 was suggested by three men who spoke at a public hearing on the city's proposed $19 million budget Tuesday night. Clayvon Kelly, Gary Joy and Jim Childers said all the city's 173 employees should not receive a 2.5 per- cent increase in pay plus a 2.5 percent merit raise in next year's budget but suggested the scale be 3 per- cent for those earning up to $15,000; 2 percent for those earning $15,000 to $25,000; and one percent for those earning above $25,000 per year. City officials made on comment on the proposal. "When you raise high paid employees like supervi- sors and department heads the same pay and the same time as the $6 an hour worker, that means that some people are getting big money," said Joy, who took the floor twice to speak after Mayor Scott BOBBY SHORT 44 charges pending against juveniles Forty-four charges are pending against juveniles who allegedly took thousands of dollars in mer- chandise and numerous bicycles, seven of which were recovered by police during the weekend. Police said the youths damaged cars and trucks $14,000 and racked up $26,000 in damage to the Deal Street Pool. Nine charges, including two felony counts of breaking, entering and larceny and two felony counts New KMHS phone A new telephone system at Kings Mountain High School is getting raves from some people and criticism from others but Principal Jackie Lavender said the "kinks are just about out" and the general public should be pleased with the results. Lavender said AT&T just in- stalled a Merlin Ledgen sophisti- cated system which has the capaci- of breaking and entering into a ve- hicle, have been lodged against a 16-year-old male. Three other ju- veniles face 35 charges which in- clude break-in of an automobile owned by John Necessary, damage to a money changer machine and towel machine at Reynolds Quick Stop, damages to vehicles parked at the American Legion, damage to a tractor trailer truck owned by Bobby Hammill and parked on Fredrickson Street, vandalism of ty for automated answering and voice mail. Lavender said KMHS is the last school in the Kings Mountain District Schools to go on the sys- tem. Lavender said automation will mean that calls can be answered quickly. Lavender said when school is in session that as many as 300 calls come into the high school on any given day. The system works this way. A six storage buildings at Lybrand Warehouse, theft of hood orna- ments from Billy Laws and dam- age to a car owned by Mary Edwards, Crocker Road. The juveniles are also charged in the break-in of Thomas Goforth's vehicle at 604 Hillside Dr., the break-in and larceny from Pete's Game Room, the vandalism and theft of items from Community Church of Jesus Christ Our Lord at- 105 Waco Road. Sgt. Phil Witherspoon's Squad B, Sgt. James Camp's Squad D and Sgt. Houston Corn and Det. Lt. Richard Reynolds and members of the Detective Division investigated and made the arrests. Petitions are also pending against several juveniles who took three bicycles from 413 Country Acres. David Brinkley, traveling south on 161 York Road, located See Charges, 3-A system installed caller to the high school, 734-5647, gets a daytime message to dial sev- en and the two-digit extension number of the person/department he or she wants to reach. If the caller doesn't know the extension number to dial direct, the caller holds the line for the secretary/re- ceptionist to assist in the call. Calling after school hours will get the caller a nighttime message au- tomatically recorded so that call Scott Buchanan, left, and Jimmy Maney access information on Kings Mountain utilities system at the touch of a button. The city's computerized PCB program, is a first for the state. They also show off the electric department's state awards for safety. backs can be made the next day. "We have one secretary in the office and seven telephone lines and even though students help out, some folks have to wait and often hang up angry because they think we're not here,” said Lavender. "We just could not keep the phones answered and we think this system will be a big improvement." The new system cost $21,900. Al Moretz. Neisler called time and then allowed him to speak five more minutes, at the suggestion of Councilman Kelly said five minutes was insufficient for a $19 million budget but the mayor said he wanted to give every interested citizen an opportunity to comment. About 30 people, including some city employees, were present. Council members Jim Guyton and Norma Bridges were absent. Moretz and Councilmen Phil Hager and Fred Finger spoke briefly, along with the mayor, but Councilmen Jerry White and Elvin Greene made no comment. Kelly praised City Manager George Wood and Council for what he called a "bang up budget." He said he came to the meeting not to criticize but to question several items. money is in the budget for a zoning ordinance update and money was left over from last year's budgeted He questioned why more See Council, 3-A READY TO RUN Filing opens on Friday, July 2 for City Council, School Board With the filing deadline for four City Council seats and three Board of Education seats only nine days away, politicking may soon pick up steam in Kings Mountain. Terms of Council members Al Moretz, at-large; Elvin Greene, Ward 3, Jerry White, Ward 4, and Fred Finger, Ward 5 and School Board members Priscilla Mauney, at-large; and Ronnie Hawkins and C. A. Allison, outside-city, are up. The filing season jegins at noon \. Friday, July 2, and ends at ngon on Friday, August 6. Candidates for City Council must file with Elections Board Chairman Becky Cook on Meadowbrook Road and pay a fee of $36. Candidates for the board of education must file at the County Elections office in Shelby. The filing fee is $20. The city election is October 5 with a possible runoff November 2, the same day as the school board election. The city elections board conducts the city election. Cleveland Country Board of Elections conducts the school board election. Although no ruling has been made by the U.S. Justice Department approving the change of Priscilla Mauney's seat from in- side city to at-large, the elections board is moving ahead on the pre- sumption that approval will be giv- en, said Debra Blanton, elections supervisor. Blanton said that the Justice Department had asked for additional information from Supt. Dr. Bob McRae and that informa- tion has been forwarded to Washington, DC. "It will probably take 60 days to preclean it but we're proceeding and feel that the plan will be ulti- mately approved,” said Blanton. She said if the Justice Department disapproves the plan, the filing fees of $20 would be returned. See Filing, 3-A Goforth says he won't run Although the political rumor mill continues to grind out his name, Kings Mountain Police Chief Warren Goforth says he won't be a candidate for the high 1994. nently in recent weeks in letters to the editor in the local newspaper. "Being Sheriffiliis a dream I've had for a long time but I need to stay in Kings Mountain and finish my job here," said Goforth, 44. Goforth said he would work "ex- tremely hard to help elect someone who will provide the services for Kings Mountain and the whole county to make the community a safe place." Goforth said Buddy McKinney, who has said he will retire next year after 10 years, has "been an excellent sheriff. His shoes will be hard to fill." Goforth said the new sheriff will have to be innovative and creative and work with all to suppress crime in Cleveland County J.C. Sanders, retired state high- way patrolman, Ron McKinney, chicf deputy, and SBI Director Dan Crawford have all indicated they will seck the office for which filing begins in January 1994 with GOFORTH sheriff of Cleveland County in Goforth has been men- tioned promi- the primary in May 1994. KM has state's first computer system to monitor PCB output Jimmy Maney, Kings Mountain's utilities director, and Scott Buchanan, electric superin- tendent, have the answer to keep- ing up. At the touch of a button, they arc able to access any PCB informa- tion about their program. The city's investment of a $1500 sophisticated software package paid off, according to Maney. Kings Mountain is the first city in North Carolina to have a computer- izcd PCB program, says Buchanan. "From pole to yard, wc know when it came off the pole, and when we received the certificate of disposal,” said Mancy. "Anything involved in PCBs from start to fin- ish is on the computer which tracks cvery facet of a PCB program.” In a massive undertaking over the last two years, Maney said the utilities department entered PCB data 100 samples at a time, clearly identifying and storing during the process. The results is that Kings Mountain has reached the stage where they can welcome any EPA inspector any time. "It was a lot of work and we're proud of what we've accomplished, said Maney. Over the next two years the utili- ty is aiming to label everything in the city. Over the next five years Maney says Kings Mountain will get out of the PCB business alto- gether. The softwares, produced by Regulatory Compliance, is updated rcgularly. The company keeps up with legislation and OSHA and EPA regulations. A convenient fca- ture of the package, according to Buchanan, is that when it's time to do a report you just print it out. The information is already com- piled. The electric department, which supervises 1200 transformers and provides electricity to 4,000 cus- tomers, tiegan the PCB program in October 1991. PCB is the abbreviated form for PolyChlorinated Biphenyls. In the carly 1970's the manufacturers of transformers uscd PCB's as a flame retardant for transformers but the Environmental Protection Agency ruled PCB's not cnvironmentally safc and now require municipali- ties to properly identify, store and dispose after oil samples are taken and sent to a certified OSHA lab which sends back results the city must strictly follow or be faced See Computer, 3-A
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