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~ THURMAN LASSITER
"""" Thurman Jackson Lassiter, 79,
103 Cloninger Street, Kings
“Mountain, died January 17, 1996 at
‘ Carolinas Medical Center in
¢ Charlotte.
A native of Edgecombe County,
“he was the son of the late James
William and Elizabeth Suis
“Lassiter. He was also preceded in
“death by a stepson, Danny E.
_ Weaver.
He was a retired fixer at Rex
Mill #2, a member of Pathway
“Baptist Church, and a U.S. Army
_Yeteran of World War II.
‘He is survived by his wife, Mary
* Truesdale Lassiter of the home; a
"son, James W. Lassiter of Ohio;
“three stepsons, Clyde B. Weaver
and Alvin C. Weaver of Gastonia
"and Charles L. Price Jr. of Lenoir;
: “two stepdaughters,
Phyllis
" Thompson of Dallas and Mary Ann
“Flowers of the home; two brothers,
“Charlie Lassiter of Wilson and
Walter L. Lassiter of Fayetteville;
three sisters, Macy Stewart of
* “Texas, Gardine Clark of Orlando,
““Fla., and Betty Barns of Tarboro;
four grandchildren; and three
great-grandchildren.
A graveside service was con-
ducted by the Rev. James Hamrick
Sunday at 3 p.m. at Mountain Rest
Cemetery.
FILINGS
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"The opportunities are here in
Cleveland County and we need to
build on them" he said.
Cook also said he would push
for cutting the fat from some coun-
ty agencies with overlapping duties
and functions. He said a thorough
study is needed of all government
agencies to determine budgets
which are lean and those which are
fat.
"Most importantly the county
needs to look at its water supplies,
particularly in Upper Cleveland
which had citizens without good
drinking water this past weekend,"
he'said.
-- Cook said a priority should be a
tie-in of water lines in Kings
Mountain, Grover, No. 3
Township, and Upper Cleveland.
- Diversified industry, a new tax
fate structure and more jobs are
acute needs, he declared.
....Cook. retired from Hoechst
: Celanese in the management area
- after 32 years. He was promoted
: through the ranks from production
: operator. Son of Mildred Howell
i Cook of Kings Mountain and the
: late Kings Mountain Police Sgt.
: Bynum P. Cook, he married Becky
: Thornburg 37 years ago. They have
: three children, Tracy Cook of
: Linden, Alabama, Terrie Cook of
: Kings Mountain and Tammy Mann
: of Charlotte; and one grandchild,
: Tyler Cook. The family is active in
: First Baptist Church.
Cook graduated from Kings
i Mountain High School and served
i four years in the US Air Force. A
i life- long Democrat, he worked and
iwent to school at Gaston College
sand Cleveland Community College
tand took continuing education
iclasses through Georgia State
University, Rutgers University and
“N.C. State and traveled on his job
for many years.
¢ Alexander, wife of retired Kings
Mountain Postmaster Charles
Alexander, served on the county
land use task force, is past presi-
dent of the Kings Mountain
Chamber of Commerce and charter
president of the Kings Mountain
Board of Realtors. A licensed gen-
eral contractor, she and her hus-
band own and operate Alexander
Realty and developed the presti-
gious Gold Run Community of
homes in the Oak Grove
Community, where they reside, and
Brandonwood off Reliance Road in
addition to apartments and busi-
nesses downtown
‘The Alexanders have two chil-
dren, Rev. Reg Alexander and
Cindy Alexander Wood, and three
grandchildren.
"There are just a lot of areas we
need to look at in Cleveland
County and it's encouraging to me
that so many people have faith in
my abilities. We all need that kind
of loyalty and vision," she said.
Alexander, a Kings Mountain
native and daughter of Mrs. Pearl
Horne and the late Theodore
Moss, graduated from Kings
Mountain High School and imme-
diately went to work at Elmer
Lumber Company and took nu-
merous continuing education class-
es over the years. She built her first
house in 1955.
Alexander is also president of
Cleveland Tomorrow, a director of
First Union National Bank, a
trustee of Gardner-Webb
University, a member of the board
of=Cleveland Home Builders,
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce
and-Kings Mountain Association
of’ Realtors.
Kimberly McGinnis Spicer has
opened an attorney's office for the
general practice of law at 245
Battleground Avenue between
McGinnis Department Store and
Fred Kiser's Restaurant.
Wife of Eric Spicer, she is the
daughter of John and Carolyn
McGinnis and granddaughter of
Mrs. Ethel McGinnis and the late
Paul McGinnis of Kings Mountain
and Mr. and Mrs. Belvin Strickland
of Dunn.
Spicer earned her undergraduate
degree in Health Care
Administration from UNC at
Chapel Hill in 1991 after gradua-
tion from Kings Mountain High
School in 1987. She attended
Mercer University Law School in
Macon, Ga. and then transferred
her last year of law school to Wake
Forest University.
She will be open primarily on a
WATER
From Page 1-A
gallons of water a day but when it
reaches the 6.4 million capacity the
state would require plans for an ad-
dition to the water plant.
Construction must start when the
volume reaches 7.2 million on an
average. However, Ollis said
Spectrum, a big user of city water,
is dropping its consumption con-
stantly due to initiation of water
savings methods and the recent
closing of Clevemont Mills cost
the city the sale of 600,000 gallons
a day.
Councilman Phil Hager, who
presided, said since there are no
specifics and many "ifs" remain in
the proposal that the item shoud be
on the agenda Tuesday night.
"We don't want to put Kings
Mountain in jeopardy for water but
we want to be good neighbors," he
said.
Ollis said he foresees nothing
moving into the Clevemont plant
any time soon. He said the bad sign
is that machinery is being moved
out of the plant on York Road by
maintenance people who are on the
job.
In other business of the meeting,
the committee, including Hager,
new member Norma Bridges and
Dean Spears, authorized Ollis to
move ahead on repairs to the
Margrace sewer line on Cloninger
Street.
With the city's annexation of the
Margrace Village, it inherited out-
dated sewer lines and at least four
houses on Cloninger Street are in
trouble, he said. Ollis estimated
that the work would cost about
$400. The city manager said that
easements would have to obtained
for the city crews to work on pri-
vate property.
"These are good people and they
will be satisfied with the work you
do," said Councilman Spears.
"We'll be going against our
codes," said Councilwoman
Bridges, who said that the city
would, however, be repairing an
existing system and that would fall
under a grandfather clause.
Former commissioner and for-
mer chairman of the utilities com-
mittee Jim Guyton reminded that
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KIMBERLY SPICER
sewers are behind the houses on
Fulton Street also.
Ollis recommended the installa-
tion of a six inch line to serve four
houses.
He said that hand digging would
take awhile but he thought the
work could be completed soon.
Hicks said money is budgeted for
the repairs.
A water supply plan required by
the state and approved by the utili-
ties commission will be taken to
City Council for formal approval
Tuesday night. Ollis said that due
to a mixup the item never got on
the city council agenda 18 months
ago when the utilities committee
acted on the plan in August 1994.
"The water plan is in good
shape and I've talked with the state
officials today and it seems that
116 areas of the state are required
to complete a water supply plan
but some have not started on
them," he said.
Councilman Ralph Grindstaff
presented a request from Hubert
Toney for a water line expansion
on Grace Street to serve 21 units of
proposed new housing.
Toney proposed to pay for half
the cost of the line and put all his
units on city gas and utilities. That
meets the inside city extension re-
quirements,
Gas Supt. Jimmy Maney said
that when the gas line was pro-
posed sometime ago that there was
an existing problem of a cathodic
protection ground bed that must be
relocated at the upper end of
Toney's his lot. He said that if the
property owners give a right-of-
way to move the bed that it can be
done very quickly.
"This project has been dragging
on for two years and I hope we can
move on it," said Grindstaff.
Ollis said the project design and
submission to the state for approval
could take about 90 days. More
water is required for the new con-
struction.
Hicks said that a moratorium on
city gas taps had been lifted and
the city would find the necessary
cash to make the gas taps.
Hager asked that Toney present
a proposal to Council at Tuesday's
7:30 p.m. meeting at City Hall.
Ollis reported that he had ap-
pealed January 4 a state penalty of
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~ Obituary | Spicer to open attorney’ s office
part time basis until the end of
June. She is currently attending
UNC at Charlotte as a part time
student where she is taking the re-
quired accounting classes to sit for
the Certified Public Accountant
Exam. These classes will comple-
ment her emphasis in tax law in
law school.
Spicer will be open Monday,
Wednesday and Friday from 12
noon until 5 p.m. and Tuesday and
Thursday from 1-5 p.m. She is
available evenings and on Saturday
by calling 734-0119.
While in law school she worked
as a summer intern for the District
Attorney's Office in Cleveland
County. She also worked as a sum-
mer intern for Charlie Horne at
Horne, West and Horne in Shelby.
"I am excited about practicing
law in Kings Mountain," says
Spicer.
$2995.53 for three violations of a
permit limit for fecal coliform at
the Pilot Creek Wastewater
Treatment Plant.
He said a new permit limit was
established a year ago and the level
established on the permit is ex-
tremely low, 02 micrograms,b ut
the city was cited anyway for ex-
ceeding the limit.
Since that time, however, the
city has purchased a new unit, an
automatic adjuster for the chemical
addition which will monitor the
sulphur dioxide gas to neutralize
the chlorine.
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income amounted to $17,063,000,
an increase of $3,178,000, or
22.9% from the fourth quarter of
1994.
On a per share basis, income per
share amounted to $1.14 in the
1995 period, compared to 91 cents
in 1994. Returns on assets and eq-
uity were 1.37% and 16.25%, re-
spectively, in 1995 compared to
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