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VOL. 105 NO. 26
KM Independence Day
celebration
Deal Street Park and the Kings
Mountain Community Center will
be buzzing with activity Saturday
as the City Recreation Department
sponsors its annual Independence
Day celebration.
Many new patriotic and fun ac-
tivities are planned as well as a
continuation of some of the fa-
vorite, traditional events.
Activities actually get underway
Friday night with a fast-pitch soft-
ball exhibition featuring Bradley
Screen Printing of Shelby, the
Southern Invitational champions,
playing a doubleheader against the
is Saturday
Canton Stars at Jake Early
Stadium.
Saturday's activities begin at 11
a.m. and will include horseshoe
tournaments, water events, enter-
tainment, and a phenomenal fire-
works display. :
The horseshoe tournament,
which has been an annual favorite,
will include male and female sin-
gles and doubles, and mixed dou-
bles. Each division requires a mini-
mum of eight entries and a fee will
be charged.
See Fourth, Page 5-A
KM plants
take break
for Fourth
With only a few exceptions,
longer July 4 holidays are in store
for industrial employees, an incom-
plete survey of industry reveals.
Commercial Intertech will oper-
ate as usual, according to a plant
spokesman, who said that the busy
season will prohibit any holiday
closing.
~ Hayward Pool Products,
Preparation Machinery Services
~ and Eaton Corporation will close
for one day, on Monday.
PMD un for
Kings Mountai |
) +35¢
Tempers on
at KM Zoning
Board meeting
Commissioner At Large Al
Moretz pitched the City Council's
ideas about proposed new zoning
to the Planning and Zoning Board
Thursday night and got a cool re-
ception.
The board voted 6-1 to send the
city council's suggestions for sin-
gle family zoning in Belvedere,
Ashbrook and Temple Park subdi-
‘visions to a non-existent land use
plan review committee.
Thursday was not the first time
that City Council and the Planning
Board had differed on zoning mat-
ters but Thursday was the first time
that Planning Board members ex-
pressed in a public meeting their
apparent disenchantment with
council ignoring their recommen-
dations.
Board members charged that
Council had been dragging its fect
on rewriting zoning ordinances and
ignores its own appointed board's
recommendations.
Chairman Wilson Griffin de-
fended the planning board as “just
tired of being ignored." He said the
board was ready to table the issues
before Moretz arrived late at the
meeting and clashed with them
over the council's proposed zoning
ot changes, items 5-10 on a long’
age
Zoning
hearing
planned
Public hearing by the City
Council on creation of proposed
new zoning districts in the Kings
Mountain Zoning Ordinance has
been set for July 27 at 7:30 p.m. at
City Hall.
The board Tuesday night called
for public hearing on the following
requests:
Request from Tommy Thombs
to rezone property at Map 40,
Block 1, Lot 13, from Light
Industrial to Residential 10. The
Planning and Zoning Board rec-
ommends approval. Thombs wants
to place a modular home on his
large lot.
Request from Bill Patterson to
rezone property at Map 4-69,
Block I, Lots 12, 16 and 17 from
Residential 8 to Residential 20. He
operates a non-conforming mobile
home park at the location, accord-
ing to the Planning and Zomning
Board which voted unanimously to
equest.
al ob the request.
Request from W. A. Reel to re-
zone the property at Map 4-79,
Block I, Lot 22, partial, from Light
bound by law to appoint and have
in operation a zoning and planning
Kings Mountain Knit, the produc-
tion department of ABE
Combustion Engineering and Anvil
Knitwear in Kings Mountain and
Minette Mills and Grover
Industries in Grover are observing
the full week for the holidays.
Clevemont Mills employees are
on vacation this week. The plant
will resume operations Tuesday.
Lucille Williams, secretary to
Kings Mountain Merchants
See Plants, 10-A
The James W. Plonk property on
. S. Battleground Avenue is the
newest property to become an-
nexed by the City of Kings
Mountain.
City Council Tuesday night
unanimously and without discus-
sion rezoned the former Fred W.
Plonk building on old Grover Road
from Light Industry to General
Business and then annexed the
property into the city limits.
Realtor Hal S. Plonk said that a
convenience store is going on the
property and spoke in favor of both
the rezoning and voluntary annexa-
tion. He said that the area is
BEATING THE HEAT - Tuesday's 96-degree temperature didn't phase these Kings Mountain young
people, who cooled off with an afternoon of swimming at the Deal Street Pool.
presently surrounded by general
business, such as Timms Furniture
and a garage, but the whole area is
zoned light industry. "I've had sev-
eral prospects for the property but
no one wanted it when they discov-
ered it was zoned for light indus-
try," he said.
"I feel a land use committee
would approve the whole area for
general business," said Plonk dur-
ing a public hearing in which he
was the only person to speak.
Gene White, planning director,
said he was not speaking for or
See Plonks, 10-A
Cable franchise will remain Jones
Jones Intercable announced earlier this year that it had entered into an
agreement with Alert Cable Television, an affiliate of Cablevision
Industries, Inc. to sell its local operation.
Recently, Jones Intercable was officially notified by Alert that it did not
intend to consummate the transaction and that they were terminating the
agreement on the grounds that there had been a material adverse change in
the business of the local system as well as the entire cable television indus-
try as a result of the FCC's recent rate re-regulation rulings.
"Jones Intercable has accepted Alert's termination of the agreement and
will continue to operate the system with the same high quality service and
programming as in the past,” said Rob Bridges, General Manager.
The eighth largest cable company in the U.S., Jones Intercable locally
services approximately 20,000 subscribers in Gaston, Cleveland and York
countics. : ;
Herald going to 50 cent
The newsstand price of the Kings Mountain Herald will increase 10 50
cents on July 8. :
This is the Herald's first single copy increase in several years and is nec-
essary because of the escalating cost of newsprint, ink and other materials
necessary to produce the paper. 20 :
According to Publisher Bob Rop, mail subscription rates will remain the
same. Subscription rates are $16 per ycar in Cleveland and Gaston
Plonk property rezoned, annexed
Land use work session planned
City Council voted Tuesday
night to hold a work session in July
with a target date of August for the
full appointment of a land use
committee, a move urged by
Councilman Al Morctz.
Moretz said he met with mem-
bers of the Planning and Zoning
Board Thursday night and shared
their concerns about the appoint-
ment of at least a 12-member board
which would include members of
the planning and city boards and
members from the community at
large.
"We've had this item on the back
burner for sometime and we need
10 get it squared away."said Mayor
Scott Neisler.
The mayor asked City Manager
George Wood to coordinate the
work session.
City planning dircctor Gene
White said that mapping is under-
See Land Use, 10-A
board," said Griffin, who has has
served on the board by appoint-
ment for nearly 30 years.
"Politics gets in the way," said
Griffin,
Moretz argued that the new
zones would protect existing
neighborhoods.
Griffin says the creation of three
new zoning districts is a muddled
attempt to get a quick fix solution
to a problem that has existed for
years.
The City of Kings Mountain
wants to rewrite its zoning ordi-
nance. But planning board mem-
bers argue the city council has been
slow to move--so slow that a pro-
posed Land Use Plan Review
Committee has not been appointed.
Money has been approved in the
upcoming budget for a new land
use plan and city zoning ordinance.
But the process of writing a land
use plan and rewriting an outdated
zoning ordinance could take two
years.
Moretz says that for now the
council wants to protect three sub-
divisions-Ashbrook, Belvedere and
Temple Parks, from future multi-
family development. In May coun-
See Tempers, 10-A
Industrial to Residential 20. Reel
presently operates a car lot on 7.57
acres of land. There is one mobile
home on the lot and he is request-
ing that 20,000 square feet of the
property be rezoned for placement
of another mobile home on the
property. The Planning and Zoning
Board voted unanimously at the re-
cent meeting to recommend denial
of the request.
Request from the City of Kings
Mountain to create Residential
Single Family 6 and Residential
Single Family 8 zoning districts in
the Kings Mountain Ordinance.
The Planning and Zoning Board
tabled 6-1 the request and referred
it to the non-existent land use com-
mittee.
Request from the City of Kings
Mountain to rezone all or parts of
Ashbrook and Temple Park
Subdivisions and Belvedere Circle
Subdivision, the property at Map
40, Block 4, fronting Waco Road,
and the Larry Hamrick property
adjacent to Ashbrook Park
Subdivision. The Planning and
Zoning Board referred all the re-
quests but the Hamrick request to
the non-existent land use plan re-
See Hearing, 10-A
United Fund goal
Kings Mountain's United Fund
goal for next year will be the same
as last year, $121,500.
Drive Chairman Jay Rhodcs and
division chairmen sct the goal at a
luncheon meeting Tuesday to lay
groundwork for the 1994 campaign
which officially starts this fall.
"We won't raise the goal duc to
the downturn in the cconomy but
we hope Kings Mountain folks
will top it as they did last year,"
said Rhodes after he appointed
chairpersons for the drive.
Rhodes encouraged volunteers
to start their solicitation effort carly
so that the drive could be complet-
cd by November 30.
The committee chairmen in-
clude: Kyle Smith, advanced gifts
for '94 is $121,500
"I see the United Fund
as my chance to give
something back to my
community.”
-Jay Rhodes
Ronnic Wilson, schools; Rev. John
Futterer, ministerial; and Lib
Stewart, publicity.
The industrial committee's goal
is a big chunk of the goal, S80,000.
Maude Norris, United Fund
President, said Kings Mountain
arca citizens gave $124,000 to the
United Fund last year. She said that
some of the funds pledged last year
Countics, $18 per year in other North Carolina countics, and S21 a year and correspondence; Maxine Were not collected but she is confi-
outside North Carolina. Six-months subscriptions arc available for $9 in ! ¢ ; : Parsons, City of Kings Mountain; dent that those funds will come in
Cleveland and Gaston counties, S10 in other North Carolina counties, and United Fund President Maude Norris and Campaign chairman Elaine Grigg and Ronnie this year.
$11.50 outside North Carolina.
To subscribe to the Herald, call the circulation department at 739-7496
between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays.
Jay Rhodes lay the groundwork for the 1994 United Fund cam-
paign for $121,500. Division leaders mapped their solicitation strat-
egy Tuesday.
Whetstine, commercial; Huitt
Reep, hospital; Ken Howley, indus-
trial; Tom Tate, professional:
“I sce the United Fund as my
chance to give something back to
my community,” said Rhodes.