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~" Sherwood Southerland, Jr. man-
ager of the Employment Security
Commission office, said the agen-
ey will contact mill workers to of-
£ “der them help in finding other jobs.
* Clevemont plans to close its
plant here by the end of the year.
fi "The timing of the consolidation
WACIR a reflection of the difficult retail
fit Lenvironment for apparel, and in-
ut ‘creasingly competitive nature of
| the business," said Kathy Fauster,
a, Director of Corporate
D007 Communications for the Chicago-
el 7./ based Fruit of the Loom Inc.
il il "As part of the Company's ongo-
ing efforts to improve profitability,
/i_s$treamline operations and enhance
customer service, the manufactur-
f5; ing operations at Clevemont Mills
272 will be consolidated into other
==Fruit of the Loom facilities."
f Monday's announcement was
one of eight announcements being
made by the Company in the states
§7~of Kentucky, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Alabama and North
| Carolina, addressing the reconfigu-
. ration and consolidation program.
|" The total number of employees af-
fected by these announcements is
approximately 12 percent of the
company's total employment in the
United States. The Company's
worldwide employment prior to the
i announcement was 38,000, includ-
i ing domestic employment of
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27,000. Over 3,000 jobs were ex-
pected to be cut.
: _ Faustere said. "Our employees
il are a dedicated, hard-working
“group of individuals. The changes
i affecting them have been brought
; on by global competitive pressure
i ‘and are not a reflection of their
| many contributions to the compa-
i ‘ny. We are committed to helping
| ‘these people in every way possi-
i ‘ble. ‘
} Local employees were informed
; of the closing of the plant in a let-
| ter from Brad Clark, Senior Vice-
: President of Manufacturing,
! Bowling Green, Ky.
Employees were given the an-
otmcement by Plant Manager
i Marty Bailey Monday that their ex-
i pected last day of work would be
i within a 14-day period beginning
: November 10. Employees will be
# separated as their jobs are discon-
: tinued.
; “The letter to employees stated
| that all employees afforded less
| than 60 days notice would be com-
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Beis with great regret ‘that the
i entire Clevemont Mills operating
| facility of Martin Mills Inc. will be
closing permanently by December
31," said Clark.
by The announcement was not a
| surprise i in some areas. On October
:18, the underwear maker an-
{ounced a 39 percent drop in third-
quarter profits and said it was con-
isi ering plant closings. Higher
cotton prices and poor sales were
| biimed.
“~The closings, however, came as
‘a shock to Kings Mountain em-
ployees who said they had heard
some rumors that the local industry
was in trouble but that they had
been assured their jobs would be
there.
Austin appointed
to city ABC Board
“i Darrell Austin, Operations
Manager at the Kings Mountain
Herald, was appointed to his first
full term on the Kings Mountain
Council.
“Austin had been completing the
unexpired term of the late Van
Birmingham.
Councilmen Phil Hager and
Rick Murphrey made the motions
on the appointment which passed
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ELAM and then moved back to the family Mr. Elam says he enjoys his
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the rig and four men moved the
paint guns as they painted four tent
frames at a trip. With four drivers,
16 paint guns and 16 gun operators
the group finished the job.
From that job and by the end of
the War Elam had painted an
Aviation school, Navy ships, and
an Atom Plant in Tennessee.
He said he stayed on the road for
years and that's the reason he didn't
marry until age 32.
Elam moved with his family to
Kings Mountain from Pelzer, SC
when he was a year old and for
many years they lived on the 300-
acre family farm on Elam Road.
As a toddler he followed his fa-
ther behind the plow and grew up
on stories about his Civil War
grandfather who was a circuit rid-
ing preacher who traveled from
place to place on horseback.
Elam's parents, Richard Fuller
and Sally Victoria Roberts Elam,
had six children, three boys and
three girls, and they took their chil-
dren to the Baptist Church every
Sunday in a horse-drawn buggy.
Elam was 13 years old when he
was baptized in the First Baptist
Church. He and his first wife,
Ruth Hoard, were married in 1937.
They lived in Gastonia four years
ELECTI 0 J where he said a hydroelectric plant change in leadership at City Hall.
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“All the candidates have been ac-
tively campaigning by personal
contact and some advertising by
posters and the media. The cam-
paign itself has been regarded as
one of the quietest in recent memo-
ry.
Neisler's campaign has contin-
ued to rest on his record as mayor
for the past four years and before
that as a councilman in Ward 4.
"The people know what to ex-
pect from me," he has said on sev-
eral occasions.
But Neisler and Childers, a for-
mer two-term commissioner, differ
in their approaches to the single is-
sue central to every campaign in
the city this fall - the city's continu-
ing financial struggle.
Both, however, say the city is
on its way to recovery.
Neisler promotes different tech-
niques of managing funds already
in hand with no tax or rate increas-
es. He has repeatedly urged
Council SE to decrease the
nd wility rates.
Childers favors en use of
city resources such as Moss Lake
GROVER
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expansion is underway. Queen said
Council had continued to maintain
the same tax rate and has not in-
creased city services.
McCarter says he wants to see
the "improvement of the town's fi-
nancial standing and the return of
good old-fashioned government."
"I want to see Council discuss
and implement programs during
meetings at City Hall in which citi-
COUNCIL
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ing rehabilitation is won by Kings Mountain that the
city will pay $8,500 for two consecutive years as its
contribution to the program. City Manager Gary Hicks
says it is unlikely that the city will get the grant since a
major portion of the grant money is allocated to the
eastern part of the state.
The board took the recommendation of Chief Bob
Hayes and purchased a drug dog from Sentinel K-9
Inc. at cost of $3,098, including cost of training with
an officer. Hayes said the animal is strictly a drug dog
and the contract price included provision for retraining
the animal with another officer in the event the handler
is promoted or leaves the department.
farm in Kings Mountain. Elam's
work took them to Virginia,
Tennessee, Mississippi and Florida.
She died in 1975.
In 1979 he married Ellen Black
McCurdy. Their family includes
two daughters, Ruth McCurdy
Bellenger who is married to Wilson
Bellinger, an orthodontist in
Birmingham, Ala., and Mary Anne
McCurdy Bailey who is married to
Ron Bailey, head of the
Engineering Department at the
University of Texas in Arlington;
and three grandchildren.
Ellen and Broadus' friendship
began when both were serving on
jury duty in Cleveland County.
Mrs. Elam said she had met Mr.
Elam's brother, Philip, a number of
years ago at Wingate College
where she was studying piano.
They started dating at church func-
tions and were married.
"My courting days were quite
different because before Ruth and
I were married we went to the pic-
ture show for 10 cents," said Elam,
comparing today's costs with enter-
tainment prices 60 years ago.
A 1927 graduate of Kings
Mountain High School, Elam
bought his first car in the 1930's
and drove his own car until about
four years ago. "My wife Ellen
came along and I just let her do the
driving," he teased his wife.
could save the city about $400,000
yearly.
"We just cannot raise rates on
our citizens," said Bridges at the
recent utilities committee meeting
when Council turned down at least
for 60 days a proposal to pass on a
substantial increase by the city's
gas supplier.
"Enough is enough," said
Bridges.
"Treat everybody alike," has
been. the standard comment by
Guyton at several meetings at the
utility committee he chairs.
Both Bridges and Guyton say
they are running on their record of
answering citizen complaints.
"When people call me I respond
and if I don't know the answer I
ask," said Bridges, who has signs
all over town with the message,"A
voice, not an echo."
Guyton says he will continue to
speak out at City Hall even if he
loses the election.
"There are things I want to see
accomplished," he said.
Bunch and Mullinax.say they are
working to win and are pumping
hands and seeking support for a
zens have input into the decision
making," he said.
McCarter acknowledged that an
incumbent is hard to defeat on a
write-in but he said he appreciated
the calls from local citizens want-
ing him to run.
Both McCarter and Queen are
active in First Baptist Church.
Queen is a longtime employee of
Grover Industries. McCarter has
been employed by Minette Mills
for 56 years and remained a con-
sultant after retirement.
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new friends at Countrytime and
volunteers to help clean off tables
in the dining room.
"I am a little more agile than
some of my new friends," he said.
Dressed in khaki pants and plaid
shirt with his familiar suspenders,
Elam relaxed and enjoyed remi-
niscing about his life and particu-
larly his painting jobs.
He said he never wore the tradi-
tional painting outfits when he re-
ported to work but always his cot-
ton khaki pants, cotton shirts and
his trademark, suspenders.
During his heyday, he painted
with a machine, using rollers and
no brushes.
Elam said he has been proud of
55 years as a painter, retiring only
this year.
He entered the area rest home
five months ago. His room is deco-
rated with family pictures, includ-
ing pictures of the important times
in his life; his two weddings, his
activities with church and family
and his contract painting.
"Painting is hard work but I've
never been afraid of work," he
laughed.
Mrs. Elam is an accomplished
musician, a retired music teacher
and organist at First Baptist Church
who continues: to play the organ at
local church services.
All the candidates have been
busy talking to more people as the
runoff draws near and hoping to
gain the support of the other candi-
dates who were edged out of the
respective races.
City elections board members
will be at City Hall to announce the
election returns after the polls
close.
Elections Supervisor Becky
Cook reminds voters to mark their
ballots clearly with the black felt-
tip pen provided by election offi-
cials. Some ballots had to be dis-
carded in October because they
were improperly marked.
Kings Mountain voters will also
cast votes in the Board of
Education race where two inside-
city seats are up this fall.
Incumbents B. S. Peeler, chair-
man, and Shearra Miller, vice-
chairman, are "home free" as no
one filed to oppose them.
The city's 4,752 registered voters
can cast votes for the mayor and
At-large seat open on City Council.
Only the 895 registered voters in _
Ward 2 can vote for the candidates
for Ward 2.
Four people seek the two seats
open on Town Board, including the
incumbent commissioner Jack
Herndon and newcomers Heather
Crawley Chadwick, Elizabeth Bird
Throop and Sam Stevenson.
A light turnout is predicted, al-
though both McCarter and Queen
said the write-in activity could gen-
erate more interest. Four-hundred
people are registered to vote.
The polls open at 6:30 a.m. and
close at 7:30 p.m. at Grover Town
Hall.
In response to question of Councilman Guyton,
Hayes said a drug dog would help officers get convic-
tions and is a deterrent to crime.
Councilman White, a member of the Cleveland
County Sheriff's Department, agreed and noted that in
search and seizure instances that a dog can sniff out
drugs and is a valuable tool in combating drugs.
Spent $3,000 for plans and specifications for up-
grading of Deal Street Pool which Recreation Director
Chip Hord said can't be used next summer until repairs
are in place. Hord said his department received a coun-
ty recreation grant of $47,291 which he hopes can be
used to do some of the renovation. He said 80 percent
of the current pool budget has been used to keep the
pool open this summer. He said old filtration and daily
drainage of the pool eliminates chemicals making the
pool water turn green, cloudy and not safe.
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RESTORE THE VISION
JAMES
CHILDERS
FOR MAYOR
[ appreciate and thank you for the vote and support you gave me on |
October 10, 1995.
I come to you the voter, again asking for your vote and support on |
November 7, 1995, to help Restore The Vision for Kings Mountain. |
James A. Childers
Candidate For Mayor