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KM losing another doctor
Dr. Scott Mayse made it official
this week that he is closing his 15-
year medical practice in Kings
Mountain.
Rumors in the medical commu-
nity had been circulating for sever-
al weeks that Mayse was looking at
another position and in a letter to
his patients under date of August
15 he wrote them that he "had not
wanted to leave this community
but the changing face of the health
care delivery system locally has
left me with little choice."
Mayse, 43, said the shrinking
size of the medical community
DIVIDED HIGHWAY - A culvert underneath Margrace Road
washed out during heavy rains last Thursday night, causing the high-
Rain pounds KM area again
Forecasters are predicting no
rain for the remainder. of the week
but a few clouds, said fram
A surprise overnight thunder-
storm Thursday forced streams out
of their banks, washing out a por-
tion of Margrace Road.
Luckily, no one was injured.
Five inches of rain started pour-
ing on Eastern Cleveland County
about 11 p.m. Thursday.
Bethlehem Fire Department was
called out and more than 50 volun-
teers came to the aid of Phifer
Drive residents Carl and Doris
Pruitt who awoke at 5 a.m. to find
high flood waters up to their back
United Fund
seeks $125.000
Ready, set, go!
That's what United Fund
Campaign Chairman Nancy Scism
is telling Division leaders this
week as they plan to kick-off the
annual appeal September 9 at a
luncheon meeting at the Kings
Mountain Depot.
The drive will seek $125,145,
slightly up from last year, for 16
agencies.
Funded this year were these
charitable organizations:
American Red Cross, $19,000;
Ministerial Association Helping
Hand and Chaplain's Fund,
$15,500; Girl Scouts of Pioneer
Council, $4500; Boy Scouts of
piedmont Council, $4500; North
Carolina United Way, $625; Kings
Mountain Rescue Squad, $13,000;
Children's Home of Cleveland
County, $7800; Kings Mountain
Boys Club, $11,325; Grover
Rescue Squad, $10,000; CODAP,
$7,000; Salvation Army, $3500;
Cleveland County Mental Health
Association, $500; Hospice of
Cleveland County, $6800; United
Family Services, $3500; Cleveland
Vocational Industries, $4200;
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caused him to "look out for the fu-
ture."
Mayse said he has been con-
cerned that Kings Mountain
Hospital is becoming more of an
outpatient facility instead of an in-
patient facility that he feels the
community needs.
Kings Mountain Internal
Medicine Clinic at 608 West King
Street, Suite 3, will close its doors
in mid to late September.
Mayse will join the practice of
First Charlotte Physicians, a large
Internal Medicine Group in
Charlotte, affiliated with
Presbyterian Hospital. He will be
working in the branch office at the
University Medical Park near
UNCC and admitting his patients
to Charlotte Presbyterian Hospital.
Mayse wrote his present patients
that they will be welcomed in his
new practice but for many of them
who can't travel the distance, he
said he would attempt to assist
them in meeting their medical
needs during the transition period.
He said patient records will be
available upon the request of pa-
* tients.
Mayse said that for several
weeks after he leaves the city that a
nurse will be available at the West
King Street office for blood tests
and blood pressure checks and he
is hoping to have evening office
hours one day a week in Kings
Mountain for a similar period of
time to give his current patients a
little more time to find satisfactory
long-term medical care. He encour-
aged patients with more serious
medical problems to begin seeking
another doctor.
In Kings Mountain the Mayse
family has been active in the com-
munity.
door.
Cleveland County Sheriff's
Deputy Ed Pheagin had just passed,
over a quaking section at the lower
end of Margrace Road when the
pavement and tons of mud gave
way behind him, leaving a gaping
15-foot deep culvert filled with
flood waters.
Cleveland County Emergency
Management Director Beau
Lovelace said a flooded Long
Branch Creek washed the road:
away. Heavy rains also flooded
way to collapse.
four oiher roads in the eastern sec
tion of the county.
Rescue workers quickly barri-:
caded the flooded areas.
Local weatherman Ken
Kitzmiller said the inside-Kings
Mountain area received 1.65 inches’
of rainfall on Thursday. The seven-
day total rainfall in the city limits®
was 2.57 inches.
Kitzmiller's rain gauge has mea-
sured 43.74 inches of rainfall in’
Kings Mountain, the normal rain-
fall for an entire 12 months.
To date,’
Kitzmiller, a retired water and;
wastewater employee for the State.
of Ohio, has been keeping weather
calendars and charts since 1981.
The 78-year-old resident says he
kept up with rainfall at his job and
continued as a hobby when he re-
tired in Kings Mountain.
Kitzmiller regularly shares his
weather reports with the local radio
station and newspaper.
Dr. Mayse chaired the successful
Kings Mountain Kiwanis club-
sponsored community fund drive
to build the Neisler Natatorium at
Kings Mountain High School and
is co-chairing the successful drive
to build a home for the Kings
Mountain Little Theatre at the old
Dixie Theatre in downtown Kings
Mountain. The whole family has
been active in the Sharks Aquatics
Club and swim program and orga-
nized the Kings Mountain Chapter.
Mayse earned his medical de-
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DR. SCOTT MAYSE
City utility bill
to have new look
You may not recognize your City
utility bill this month.
Beginning with the August bill,
your bill will be an 81/2x11 bill
folded and inserted in a window
envelope.
Interim City Manager Maxine
Parsons said the staff in the city's
Finance Department is making ev-
ery effort to have utility bills to
customers on time this month. She
said the bills may be a day or two
late because of the magnitude of
the changes being made this
month.
Your new bill will contain a pink
return. envelope. Parsons said if
customers will use the envelope
that it will help city employees
process the payment faster.
Parsons said the city will also re-
alize some savings in postage since
the bills will be coded with an 11-
digit zip code.The bar code allows
the post office to sort the bills by
machine for route delivery.
“The new bill has been designed
with room at the bottom for com-
ments from utility customers and
will also be used by the city to re-
lay important information to cus-
tomers, such as time for gas light-
ups and pick-up of leaves.
Parsons said that the current
meter-reading and billing system
causes a bottleneck of paperwork
at the end of the month and makes
it difficult to collect late payments
or cutoff fees until the beginning of
the next month.
Parsons and Utility Director
Jimmy Maney agree the current
method for reading meters is insuf-
ficient and looked at Shelby's
schedule for meter reading. With
the permission of the city utilities
committee, they adopted the City
of Shelby's routine of reading all
meters - inactive as well as active.
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Kings Mountain People
They say the new system will bet-
ter organize the routes and readers
will have a calendar specifying the
days and the areas they read and
the schedules for their other duties,
including cutoffs. Routes they now
use are erratic, creating double
coverage of some areas.
Maney explained at a recent util-
ities committee meeting that the
current reading method using
hand-held electronic devices does
not necessarily alert a reader when
a meter has gone back on line. He
said the new system will eliminate
the possibility readers may pass a
meter that has been inactive for
several months but has recently
been activated.
A new cutoff policy effective
October 15 was adopted by City
Council in July. Parsons said bills
will be due on the 15th of each
month, the late fee will be added
on the 16th of each month and cut-
off will be on the 25th of each
month. In October, when this
change takes effect, the bills will
be in the mail either on the last day
of the month or the first day of the
next month, she said.
Parsons said the new changes
should alleviate cash flow prob-
lems and put the city on a true 30-
day billing cycle.
Parsons said the Finance and
Utility Departments will inform
customers about changes in
billing, reading of meters and col-
lecting of bills in future articles in
the newspaper.
"The focus of the Finance
Department and Utility Department
is to better serve the customers in
the reading of your meter, billing
and collecting your bill," Parsons
said.
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Miracles never cease for Mae
By ELIZABETH STEWART
of The Herald Staff
Morrow's first husband, Doc Boyles, died in a train
Mae Morrow, 80, credits her long life to serving
God and giving the church a tithe.
The silver-haired mother of eight children, grand-
mother of 18 and great-grandmother of 27 said her
greatest ambition in life was to be a Christian home-
maker.
"I've witnessed a number of miracles in my own
family," said Morrow, relaxing in her comfortable
Church Street home with daughter, Wanda West, and
granddaughter, Selenja Robbins, and reliving memo-
ries of cooking for a large crowd, including an extend-
ed church family.
"My late husband Harvey and I helped build the
Missionary Methodist Church on Second Street and
for 40 years we took guests home with us every
Sunday for dinner and talked about how to sell more
doughnuts to pay for the church,” she said.
"Many times my husband didn't tell me we were
having guests but we always made room for one more
at the table."
Morrow said her husband served in almost all ca-
pacities in the church, except in the pulpit, and died of
a heart attack 20 years ago while cutting the grass at
the church.
"Harvey loved the church so much and he died the
way he wanted.”
accident in Kings Mountain in 1940 when Mae was
pregnant with her first child.
But Morrow said it was no accident that she met
both her spouses in church. Growing up in Kings
Mountain, she said that Brush Harbors and tent re-
vivals were the places to meet young people. She said
a Brush Harbor was located at the old T. J. Ellison
Store on Cleveland Avenue and a short distance from
her present home where she has lived for nearly half a
century.
"We didn't have cars back then and we walked gv-
erywhere," said Morrow, recalling that times were hard
but that families survived because they relied on their
faith to get them through the tough times.
" Once when we couldn't buy winter clothes for the
kids 1 asked God for clothes so they could go to
church,” said Morrow. She said that a big package of?
children's clothing was delivered to her house and she
never knew the donor.
Quilt-making, cake-baking, gardening and freezing
home-grown vegetables have kept Morrow busy all
her life and rarely a day goes by that she doesn't bake
cornbread and homemade biscuits for family and un-
expected company. There's always a place at ¥he
Morrow table for one more.
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