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Area Briefs
Lake board to meet
The city's new planning director
Steve Killian will be introduced to
smembers of the Moss Lake
Commission and others attending
Monday night's January meeting at
7 p.m. at City Hall.
Business of the meeting will in-
clude a request from Dedmon
Properties, of 142 Sandy Point Dr.,
~to-cut underbrush and weeds, burn
excess brush and gain access to the
city's water line. Ramon and
Sherril Bradey, prospective buyers
_of the lake property, will present
the proposal.
A proposed amendment that re-
quires lake property owners to
place street addresses at the lake's
edge will be reviewed by Director
of Inspections Jeff Putnam. A pro-
posal for a lease rate increase will
be presented by city staff. The pub-
lic is invited.
{County Board to meet
Budget amendments and board
| appointments will feature the
| January 16 meeting of the
|. Cleveland County Board of
Commissioners.
~ The board meets at 7 p.m. in the
‘Commission Chambers of the
Cleveland County Administrative
| Offices, 311 East Marion Street, in
| Shelby.
Plastic Oddities will also appeal
| a tax listing and a public hearing
| will be held on a personnel ordi-
‘nance.
. The board will appoint members
{futhe Planning Board, Board of
justments, Board of Health and
HLL Advisory committees.
.| Grover Board to meet
__ GROVER - Town Board will
meet Monday at 7 p.m. to review
police applications as the major
item of business on the agenda.
Mayor Ronald Queen said the
rd is expected to hire a full-
tithe officer after receiving a
COPS grant.
Eouncil members. Jack Herndon
was reelected to another term.
Elizabeth Throup begins her ser-
vice on the board at the January
fecting.
Councilman’ s home burns
GROVER - Fire gutted the home
of Town Councilman Robbie Sides
on Linden Avenue New Year's
Day.
Mayor Ronald Queen said that
Grover and Bethlehem firemen re-
sporided to the scene at 5:30 p.m.
to find flames lapping out of the
roof. Queen said that fire apparent-
ly started from a candle in the
‘kitchen of the house.
“There were some of the family
‘members in other areas of the
‘house who didn't realize the house
was‘ on fire until they heard a
‘crackling noise and got out," said
the mayor.
. “Queen said the house isn't liv-
:able now but he doesn't know the
extent of the damages.
Sherwood C. Southerland, manager of the Cleveland County Office of the
Employment Security Commission, takes claims for unemployment from
former Clevemont Mills employees as they line up at the local ESC office at
the Community Center. Southerland hopes to process all the paperwork this
week so that eligible employees will get their checks next week.
Kings Mountain, N.C. » 28086 ¢ 50¢
Citizens line up
for unemployment
The Kings Mountain Office of the Employment
Security Commission was the busiest place in town
this week as more than 400 former Clevemont Mills
employees lined up to file claims for unemployment.
Sherwood Southerland, Cleveland County manager,
and local office manager Thomas Cyprian have sched-
uled four sessions a day this week as times for the
large group of laid off workers to sign up.
Southerland says speed is necessary so that the
workers can start receiving pay checks as early as next
week.
Although there were lines at the Community Center
early Tuesday morning, the workers were quickly dis-
patched in groups of 25 or more who were processed
quickly by Southerland and Cyprian.
Southerland said he hopes that Clevemont Mill will
soon be sold but until that happens and if it doesn't
happen he says that the Clevemont workers have an
excellent work history and are skilled and can get oth-
er jobs.
"That's a big plus in their favor," said Southerland
who says the major plant closing in Kings Mountain
represents one of the largest groups of employees to
sign up at the local office. In Shelby he said the largest
group of layoffs came from Doran Mills.
It's probably one of the biggest transmission towers in this area and it's going up on S. Battlcground Avenue
(Grover Road) across from Town and Country BBQ. Wendell Bunch says his new neighbor is Bell South. The self-
supporting construction will tower 300 feet in the air when completed and workers have more than 100 feet to go.
The footings for the magnificient structure are 7x39 feet with 65 yards of concrete per hole.
Williams, Cabaniss to run in county
Robert A. Williams, the contro-
versial former member of the
County Board of Social Services
‘ousted recently by the county
board of commissioners, made
good his vow Tuesday that he
‘would not withdraw from politics.
: ‘He filed for one of the three
seats open in 1996 on the Board of
Commissioners. Terms of Cecil
Dickson, E. T. Vanhoy and Sam
Gold are expiring. Vanhoy has said
he may not offer for reelection.
Other members with unexpired
terms are Ralph Gilbert and Jim
Crawley and recently appointed
members Mary Accor and Bobby
Malloy.
The only other potentia candi-
date for the seven-member board
thus far in the first days of filing is
Joe E. Cabaniss Sr., of Shelby, who
announced in December that he
will run. Cabaniss says he plans to
file later in the month.
Cabaniss served on the board ei-
ther as vice-chairman or chairman
from 1989-92. A life-long
Democrat, he switched to the
Republican Party earlier in 1995.
He did so, he says, because, with
increasing frequency, the positions
and philosophies of the Republican
party at the local, state and national
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Women file for Register of Deeds
A contest developed Tuesday
for the office of Cleveland County
Register of Deeds as Jane
McDaniel of Shelby challenged the
incumbent Bonnie Reece of Kings
Mountain.
- Both women were among the
erty] filers at the Cleveland County
Board of Elections Tuesday in.
Shelby.
McDaniel, wife of Bill
McDaniel and daughter of County
Commissioner E. T. Vanhoy and
Mrs. Vanhoy, says her experience
makes her qualified for the position
and she has the expertise to serve
the citizens of Cleveland County
with efficient, friendly and timely
service being her commitment to
the people.
Reece, wife of Don Reese who
works for the N. C. Department of
Transportation, was appointed by
the Democratic Party's Executive
Committee to fill the unexpired
term of the retiring Doris Borders.
Reece was approved by the county *
commissioners and took office
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DEDMON
of Elections.
see reelection.
tive office
in a statement.
the General
New
WILLIAMS CABANISS
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Dr. Bill Stuckey, of Shelby
Orthopedics, operates a clinic on
REECE McDANIEL
Four area
for North Carolina House
Early filing Tuesday on the first
day of candidate filing for the 1996
general elections already assures a
contest in the 48th District House
of Representatives,
‘{ Dedmon of
{Shelby an-
| incumbents Dr.
{ Jack Hunt of
Shelby and John Weatherly of
Kings Mountain. Weatherly and
' Clary also filed Tuesday morning
with the Cleveland County Board
Hunt is expected to
Dedmon, 48,
making his second attempt to elec-
in Cleveland,
Rutherford, Polk and Gaston
Counties. In 1994 he fell short by
400 votes in his first race for a seat
in the NC House.
"After 1994 I knew I couldn't
stop campaigning,
"I think the last
election cycle taught me a great
deal about politics. That's why I've
been working across the district
building a grassroots network for
support from the political, business
and civic sectors."
Dedmon says his business back-
ground and foray into politics gives
him a unique perspective to take to
Assembly. "I've
worked my entire life and I know
what it means to meet a payroll and
the importance of the bottom line."
"We got the message that the
voters sent in November of 1994
Kings Mountain Hospital has
welcomed one new Canadian fami-
ly doctor to Kings Mountain and is
expecting a second physician from
Canada in February.
Hank Neal, KMH Administrator,
said that Dr. Ron Delaney has es-
tablished his family practice in the
Doctors Building near the hospital
and is located in the suite of offices
formerly occupied by orthopedic
+ surgeon Dr. Jackson.
Dr. John Dawson is expected to
arrive in February to begin a
family practice here.
Neal also announced that several
groups of area specialists are con-
ducting clinics at the hospital.
Shelby Surgical Associates are
on staff on
Wednesday from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. To
make an appointment, call 739-
On the bright side of the employment picture,
Cleveland County's 4.8 percent of unemployment in
November is down from October and still above the
state rate of 3.8 percent but well within the 5 percent
statistic that represents full employment.
Southerland said the reason the statewide rate of un-
employment is low is that the state benefits from large
areas, such as Research Triangle and also the Charlotte
metropolitan area.
North Carolina's economy should remain sound in
1996, with low unemployment and low inflation, ac-
cording to the North Carolina Employment Security
Commission. After several years of employment
growth at breakneck speed, the economy has settled
into a steady pattern which should continue into the
next 12 months.
"We're not going to see the kind of explosive em-
ployment growth we've seen in prior years," says ESC
Economist Greg Sampson.
"Employment growth slowed in 1995, but in many
ways that's relatively good news. We're already at low
unemployment, and rapid employment growth could
lead to an influx of people from outside the state and
would put some really serious inflationary pressures in
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citizens ie
place."
Homer §
Arnold of Ruth
and Andy
nounced their in-
tentions to chal-
lie ‘ng ‘e
CLARY
WEATHERLY
and we are carrying out the peo-
ple's will," said Republican Rep.
John Weatherly.
Lattimore, "My reason for filing is that I
Debbie Clary of am looking forward to the
Republican leadership continuing
and in the dramatic changes we are
making in the General Assembly,"
he said.
"We passed many of the items in
our contract and we still want to
proceed with the goal of downsiz-
ing government, decreasing taxes,
reforming education and welfare
and the many other things that the
people have indicated to us that
they want changed in their govern-
ment."
Weatherly, co-chairman of the
appropriations sub-committee on
natural and economic resources,
says he especially looks forward to
‘the future as Republicans will have
to work hard to maintain the ma-
jority in the House as well as ap-
preciating the effort to get a major-
ity in the Senate. Presently in the
Senate there are 24 Republicans
and 26 Democrats.
"Many of our initiatives are
stymied in the Senate for political
reasons but we nee. to have a ma-
jority in the Senate as well as in the
House. With a Republican General
a Democrat, is
"
said Dedmon
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doctor in town
DR. RON DELANEY
Monday and _ : 4
Tuesday from noon until 2 p.m. at
the hospital The number to call for
an appointment is 739-3601 exten-
sion 490.
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