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VOL. 106 NO. 8
$910,000 project out for bids
Kings Mountain City Council
advertised for bids Tuesday for a
$910,000 water and sewer project
with the state to run a water line
down Dixon School Road and sew-
er lines to Pioneer Motor Bearing
and the Welcome Center/I-85 Rest
Stop.
Target date for completion of the
project is Spring 1995.
The state share of the cost is
$800.000. The city's first payment
See Project, 11-A
Thursday, February 24, 1994
Kings Mountain may have the
most historic stoplights in the
country but soon they will be re-
placed at four intersections by stop
signs under a new traffic signaliza-
tion plan approved by the City
Council in collaboration with the
North Carolina Department of
Transportation.
The special study committee
recommended Tuesday the removal
'Historic' stop lights to be replace
congested areas throughout the
city.
The mayor's ad hoc committee
made these recommendations after
a study of signalized intersections
by Shelby DOT Traffic Engineer
Bob Jenkins:
Eliminate turning left from King
Street, going westward onto
Mountain Street, across from
Parker's Amoco.
of stop lights at Mountain and
Railroad, Mountain and Piedmont,
Gold and Bridges and Ridge and
Piedmont with stop signs to go up
at three of the streets and a four
way stop sign to go up at Ridge
and Piedmont at St. Matthew's
Lutheran Church.
Mayor Scott Neisler said the rea-
son for the change is to improve
traffic flow and eliminate traffic
Kings Mountain People
104 YEARS OLD |
Flora Green says God wanted
her to live to be an ‘old lady’
At 104, Flora Green enjoyed
dressing up for her birthday Friday
in a frilly pink blouse, floral skirt
and white silk stockings.
Her attitnde could be the secret
of her long life but she says that
living the Golden Rule and honor-
ing her parents were her priorities.
"I never did think I'd live this
long but God wanted me to live to
be an old lady," laughed Green.
It's easy to see why 'Grandma
Green' has stolen the hearts of the
staff at White Manor, where she
has been a resident since April 14,
1989. She delights in visitors and
hearing is poor, "he intersperses
lively conversation with stories
about growing up in a family of 12
children and eloping with her sec-
ond husband.
Mrs. Green has outlived all her
family except one sister, who is her
neighbor across the hall in the
Goforth Street rest home. Flora's
sister, Stella McGuire, 96, a resi-
dent since March 25, 1988, gave
her such a glowing report about her
treatment at the local nursing home
that Flora moved from Florida to
rated with birthday cards and flow-
live with her in Kings Mountain.
‘Flora has two sons, Aubrey Boyles
of Texas and Clifford Boyles of
Florida; 16 grandchildren; a num-
ber of great grandchildren and one
great-great grandchild.
Some of the members of her
family were here on Friday for a
birthday party but most of the party
goers were from her extended fam-
ily, residents of the facility. She
talked by telephone with a neigh-
bor in Florida and she immediately
became homesick.
"It was hard moving out of an
eight room house to one room,"
d Flora, who said what she
ers.
Flora likes to sit in her
wheelchair at the window. She
misses working in her flower gar-
den.
"We never thought about locking
doors when I was a girl and it was
safe," said Green. "Those days are
long gone."
"Now, I'm an old woman but I
can get around in this chair about
See Green, 11-A
Crime knows no boundaries.
Hard evidence of that statistic,
according to Chief Warren
Goforth, is his annual report by
Kings Mountain Police Department
to City Council and City Manager
George Wood.
All major index crime is up in
Kings Mountain and Goforth says
that 12 patrolmen on the police
force work about 1,000 calls each
during a 12-month period.
"We may have to start prioritiz-
ing the calls like big city depart-
ments are having to do because of
lack of manpower to handle them,"
said Goforth who says local police
are responding to a different type
of call, including many domestic
calls, when they should be concen-
trating on pro-active policing.
Goforth says he will present his
requests for more manpower to the
the streets. He said murder sky-
rocketed in Kings Mountain, from
two in 1990 to five in 1993, includ-
ing a double homicide in
December at a local convenience
store. Reports of rape were up from
three in 1992 to five in 1993.
Calls for service increased sig-
nificantly, from 19,504 in 1992 to
24,264 in 1993. Goforth acknowl-
edged that more people are calling
police but that many of the calls he
FLORA GREEN
Council approves Penner's rezoning request
City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday
to rezone builder O. G. Penner's
property on Bessie Drive to Light
Industry from Residential, by-pass-
ing a recommendation not to re-
zone from the Planning and Zoning
Board.
The action came after two ad-
joining property owners spoke in
opposition. The Planning and
Zoning Board at its recent meeting
voted 3-2 to deny the rezoning re-
, quest after adjacent property own-
ers cited heavier traffic would oc-
cur with new business.
Firemen
hurt when
roof falls
A brick veneer wall collapsed on
two Bethlehem firefighters
Monday night as 35 firefighters
Commissioner Phil Hager cast
the "no" vote.
Penner said a metal warehouse is
proposed on the four acres he owns
at the Kings Mountain By-Pass in-
terchange with Oak Grove Road.
Penner said his property is front-
ed by property already zoned L-I
and bounded by property zoned
Heavy Industrial.
"I don't feel like I should be pe-
nalized," he said. "Kings Mountain
needs this area for industrial devel-
opment."
Councilmen Hager and Ralph
Grindstaff questioned whether the
state would pave the access road
which Keith Ramey, a neighbor on
Bessie Road; says is now heavy
with truck traffic to a nearby busi-
ness.
"We like a quiet countryside and
want to keep this section of the
community residential,” he said. "I
want to build a new home here."
Guyton asked Ramey if a truck-
ing company was not in the area
when he built his present resi-
dence.
"Yes," acknowledged Ramey.
Kings Mountain, N¢
Crime on the rise
in Kings Mountain
spring budget retreat of City
°d last yea
tion on getting the big doators off
~De
Make one block of Fulton Drive
one-way going westward from
Margrace Road.
Make Ark street one-way going
southward and eastward.
Remove the four-way stop signs
on Southwood Drive and Somerset
Drive. The stop signs on Somerset
remain.
See L lanes, 3-A
44, which decreased by one em-
ployee in 1992. This number in-
cludes the Detective Division,
Patrol Division, office personnel
and reserves.
Goforth speculates that in future
months the Department may have
to look at the nature of the calls,
Drug arrests were down, from
69 in 1992 to 23 in 1993. Driving
while impaired arrests were up
two, from 101 in 1992 to 103 in i
1993. Police responded to 377 au-
tomobile accidents in 1993, com-
pared with 360 in 1992; 357 in
1991; and 496 in 1990.
Robbery accounted for 26 ar-
rests in 1993, compared to 16 in
1992; 11 in 1991; and 20 in 1990.
In September 1993, four robberies
were reported compared with three
each in May, June and July. Only
one robbery occurred in January
‘and October Two robberies oc-
ggra assaults accounted
for 155 arrests in 1993, compared
with 140 in 1992; 101 in 1991 and
94 in 1990. September was’ the
high month for assaults and 24
were reported, compared with 18
in October; 16 in May; 15 in
November; and 14 in August. The ]
low months were December 6 and
January, 7.
Four people were charged with
arson in 1993, compared with one
in 1992; two in 1991 and two in
1990.
terms "petty stuff" which take Vehicle theft accounted for 39
valuable time from his total staff of See Crime, 3-A
Kings Mountain Police Department
Personnel
"The road is not adeqi#hte for 18
wheelers and trucks spfed dowr | - ( ) 10) ry ( Ji )
the road now." 1990 | 46 | od 5 sy, A ! 7 I 3 ( 7 \ \
Another property owner said the | | / V {5.90 \
new business would be in his back FE NE | bt Nl sagt i Loic)
door. 1991 | a6 J ) { | [ (
After 30 minutes of discussion | ) J
and following a public hearing, NALD |
Mayor Scott Neisler called for a [ |
vote. 1992 | 45 / | |
In a second rezoning matter, é YAY)
Council approved unanimously the |
rezoning of 116.96 acres off Phifer 1993 | 44 r
Road from R-20 to R-10., = | Number of Employees
See Rezoning, 3-A 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 |
from three departments fought a
blaze in a two-story house on
Shelby Road.
Fire Chief Larry McDaniel said
that David Ayscue and Doug
Sutton had climbed a 10 feet ladder
and were standing at the gable end
of the structure when the brick
turned loose and knocked them off
the ladder.
Ayscue suffered broken bones in
his wrist, a dislocated shoulder and
bruises.
Sutton suffered bruises to his
hands and back and required seven
stitches to his chin.
"These guys were lucky,"
McDaniel.
The wounded firemen were
treated for injuries in the Kings
said
Tommy Faile, a
over 40 years, is spinning country and bluegrass music on Kings
Mountain radio station WKMT each weekday afternoon from 3-6 p.m.
See Firemen, 11-A
popular musician and comedian in this area for
Versatile entertainer Tommy Faile
has voice everyone loves to hear
By GARY STEWART
Editor of the Herald
We've all heard the stories of the sports stars whose
passion for the game was so strong they slept with a
baseball or football in hand.
across the street from his home.
from the school room,”
school and saw the mail man slide a long box in my
front door, and I said that's got to be
right heel started jumping right then, I was so excited."
"I could see my house
he said. "One day I was in
a guitar!" My
But can you imagine a youngster whose desire to be
a musician was so great that he took his guitar to bed
with him?
Such was the case with young Tommy Faile of
Lancaster, S.C., after his dad bought him his first gui-
tar from a Sears and Roebuck catalog.
Faile, a legendary entertainer in this area, recently
joined forces with WKMT Radio in Kings Mountain
and is hosting Tommy Faile at Random - a
country/bluegrass music program each weekday after-
noon from 3-6 p.m. Faile paused during a busy day re-
cently to talk about his days on the popular Arthur
Smith Show and what he's been doing since leaving
that show in 1968.
But, first, back to sleeping with the guitar.
From his earliest remembrances, Faile listened to
the Grand Ole Opry on radio every Saturday night and
dreamed of someday becoming an entertainer
"I used to pester my father for a guitar,” he said,
"but I had no idea he'd buy me one."
Faile recalled attending a little rural school right
from 7 o'clock until 11 o'clock. We didn't take breaks.
Faile's father had ordered the guitar for $6.95, and paid
50 cents a month until it was paid off.
Faile's father was not a musician but knew how to
tune a guitar, and his cousin taught him three chords.
"I played it so much that my fingers got blisters on
the ends of them,” he recalled. "I would go to bed at
night and pull the cover up over my head and play the
guitar under the cover to keep from disturbing mom
and dad."
Faile was a natural, He developed his talent and
joined a hometown band at the age of 13 and played
for Saturday night square dances around Lancaster.
"We made two dollars apiece.” he noted, "for playing
If you had to go to the restroom you'd drop the guitar
and go and come back and start playing again.”
Faile began his professional career in 1946 in
Columbia, S.C. where he started performing with the
very popular Snuffy Dewitt Jenkins and Homer
"Pappy" Sherrill and the Hired Hands. He joined the
See Faile, 3-A