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Vol 108 No. 13
Gold Run residents turned out in
force for Tuesday night's City
Council meeting, saying they
would like to see Ingles come to
Kings Mountain but not in their
neighborhood.
"Let's get together and find the
right spot," said Stan Hallam.
Van Wilson, another Gold run
resident, circulated the petition
signed by 100 percent, about 90, of
the property owners.
"Ingles has blatantly ignored our
concerns and questions," said
Wilson.
But David Dellinger, who re-
Gold Run residents oppose Ingle's
sides about 1 1/2 miles from the
proposed location on Scism/Oak
Road, said the 1100 who signed a
petition favoring the location
should also be heard.
"From an economic viewpoint
Ingles is what the Kings Mountain
area needs," he said.
Dellinger said the Oak Grove
Road and US 74 interchange is a
great commercial site and the only
other link to Shelby and
Woodbridge other than US 74
which is more crowded.
See Gold Run, 2-A
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Glen Raven
gives property
to Consortium
Glen Raven Mills, owners of
Park Yarns Mills which operated
from 1910-89 in South Kings
Mountain, have donated the vacant
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onsortium for Progress Inc.
‘for development of a $8-$10 mil-
lion retirement center complex.
"Kings Mountain was good to us
when we were down there and we
wanted to give something back to
the community," said Glen Raven
Vice-President Charles McKeller.
McKeller said he was confident
the Consortium headed by former
Mayor John Henry Moss would de-
velop the property for the total use
of the community.
See Mill, 3-A
Consortium plans $14 million projects
Kings Mountain Consortium for
Progress Inc. Tuesday unveiled
projects totaling over $14 million,
three of which are targeted for
completion in Kings Mountain
over a three year period.
"This is a great day for Kings
Mountain and a milestone for our
first anniversary," said Consortium
President John Henry Moss.
The projects include: Summit
Place, a $3 million new assisted
living center to go up on Phifer
Road by spring 1997; a $8-$10
million retirement community
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Annexation request tabled
Led by Council members Phil
Hager, Dean Spears and Jerry
White who said they wanted to
first see what what the city would
get for its money, the Kings
Mountain Board of Commissioners
Tuesday agreed unanimously to
postpone action on an annexation
request which would bring a new
supermarket to the Oak Grove
community.-
A total of 114 people, a majority
of them Gold Run property own-
ers, packed the City Council
Chambers at City Hall and gave
rousing applause to the residents of
the area who complained about
traffic, beer and wine sales across
the street from a church, intrusion
on an upscale rural subdivision and
then offered to help Ingles Markets
Inc. find another location.
I haven't heard yet how it's going
to benefit citizens here in Kings
Mountain that much,” said Ward I
Councilman Phil Hager who was
joined in the request for more in-
formation on costs for running of
sewer lines by Councilmen Spears
and White.
"We really don't know what
we're getting for our money," said
White.
Spears asked City Attorney
Mickey Corry if the verbal state-
ment by the realtor representing
Ingles Markets Inc. would stand as
a formal contractual agreement by
See Council, 2-A
Glen Raven Mills has made a gift of the old Park Yarn plant and 57 1/2 acres of property to the
Consortium for Progress for development of a retirement community. Left to right, members of the
Consortium planning committee Hubert Johnson, former Mayor John'Henry Moss, M. C. Pruette, Toney
Ruppe, Jim Childers and Kelly Bunch in front of the old plant in the Park Yarn community.
complex in the Park Yarn
Community aided by a gift of the
mill and 57 1/2 acres from Glen
Raven Mills; and a $2.5 million
housing project for the elderly for
which property acquisition is un-
derway in the Kings Mountain area
in 4 project co-sponsored by the
Consortium and the Cleveland
County Council on Aging.
In addition, plans are in the
works for an adult day care center,
for co-sponsorship of a multi recre-
ation sports complex by the City of
Kings Mountain and the
Consortium and for continued
sponsorship of a medical scholar-
ship which would make funds
available to a student providing he
return to the community and prac-
tice medicine for a certain period
of time.
Developers reviewed plans for
Summit Place. Making the presen-
tation were Norman Pulliam, pres-
ident, and John Easterling, vice
president, of Pulliam Investment
Co. of Spartanburg, SC and David
Matthews, president, and Jackie
Pittman, administrator, of Aaron
Enterprises Management Co. of
Hendersonville.
Easterling said Kings Mountain's
site will be the eighth Summit
Place to break ground in the
Carolinas. First phase is a 48-
room, 66-bed facility on 11 acres
of property across from Kings
Mountain Middle School on Phifer
Road..
The new facility will offer jobs
to 30-35 people and construction
will get underway in 90-120 days,
See Projects, 3-A
GROVER - Nina Roark Falls’
roots are entrenched in Grover and
at 84 she has no plans to move.
The last surviving member of
her immediate family, she said she
felt so alone when her eighth sib-
ling died in 1994.
But, she said, God sent Louise
Lancaster, a certified nursing assis-
tant, in December 1994 and she has
quickly become one of the family.
Nina's nephew, Dean
Westmoreland, is always ready to
answer her calls and she has good
neighbors and friends in the Grover
Woman's Club and First Baptist
Church.
Nina's reputation in Grover is
that of a super saleswoman. She
started to work at the old Margrace
Mill at age 15 for $13 a week when
she had to stand on a box to reach
the winding frames and retired af-
ter 50 years. Then, she took up
sales. She has sold everything from
Stanley products to Avon and
Grover's Nina Roark Falls
is a super saleswoman
Luziers Cosmetics, handmade
Christmas ornaments and cook-
books. At age six she made her
first sale, garden seed, and later
started selling Rosebud salve. At
14 she was selling novelties.
She is the top seller of Grover
Woman's Club cookbooks, selling
210 recently and mostly over the
telephone.
Roark says she doesn't pressure
people for her products but Mrs.
Lancaster says friends say Nina
won't take no from a prospective
customer.
Daughter of Lee And Annie
Wilson Roark, she was born
September 17, 1911 and came to
Grover at the age of six weeks
Several brothers and sisters worked
in the mill and that's probably why
Nina wanted to go to work. For a
while she lived with an uncle in
Kings Mountain and worked at the
See Roark, 2-A
Since 1889
Oak Grove Community residents William Dellinger, left, and his
son, David Dellinger, look at the proposed drawings for the new
Ingles proposed on Scism/Oak Grove Road. David Dellinger spoke for
the project Tuesday during a public hearing by City Council.
Citizens voice concerns
over utility problems
Utility customers lining up on
the 25th of each month, the cut off
day for payment for monthly bills,
is not unusual at City Hall.
But Mayor Scott Neisler said he
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a utility clerk. 2
Neisler said he feels the cit
may be too harsh in its late fee
charges which apply when a bill is
overdue the 15th of each month
and then a reconnect charge is
added after the 25th.
"We had some pretty irate cus-
tomers Monday morning but we
worked with the man who was so
mad and he made a partial payment
so that his power would not be cut
off," said the mayor.
Nina Oliver, of 523 Belvedere
Circle, took her complaints about
utility problems to the City Council
Tuesday night and read a two-page
letter into the minutes of the March
meeting.
She said that she was treated
rudely when she inquired about her
February utility bill and her at-
tempts to have her meter reread af-
ter repeated calls to the finance de-
partment and utility department
were futile.
Oliver suggested that the meter
readers be placed under the super-
vision of a department besides the
finance department.
See Utilities, 3-A
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Annexation
plan adopted
_ City Council took an important
y annexatis
Second Street areas of the city
Tuesday by adopting an annexation
services plan.
Public hearing on the annexation
plan is slated for May 14 at City
Hall.
City planner Steve Killian, as-
sisted by Benchmark planner
Richard Flowe, made the presenta-,
tion which outlined the services:
and the cost of services the city:
would provide for the proposed ar-
eas to be annexed.
Copies of the plan are available
for public review in the office of
City Clerk Marilyn Sellers
In other actions, the board:
Reimbursed full-time firefight-
ers and all other city employees for
the cost of a CDL license.
Recognized Monty Thornburg
and the Aging Department for an
excellent compliance monitoring
report for the Title III assessment.
that was conducted by Isothermal}
Planning and Development
Commission. =
Authorized Chief Bob Hayes to
appoint an officer to investigate
and approve the questionnaire form
See Annexation, 3-A
Neary Rood and)
It only takes 60 minutes to give
a pint of blood and save a life.
That's why Hilda Dixon, Kings
Mountain's volunteer coordinator
for the Red Cross bloodmobile,
hopes people will come out in
record numbers to the April 4 visit
of the Red Cross bloodmobile from
1:30-6 p.m. at First Baptist Church.
Dixon gave her first pint of
blood at age 18 in 1956 when she
cast her first vote at the polls. She
voted for President Eisenhower. In
later years she became the West
Kings Mountain Precinct's popular
and versatile registrar.
"I believe it's my God-given
privilege to give blood and to go to
the polls for every election," says
the 20-year volunteer for the
Cleveland County Red Cross
Chapter.
working the rolls of former volun-
teers and donors to give them a call
about the blood bank.
She first started organizing vol-
unteers back when volunteers were
used for a variety of tasks, includ-
ing blood pressure checks, taking
It isn't unusual to see Dixon
Red Cross desperately
needs KM people's blood
HILDA DIXON
vital signs, working the canteens
and registering donors.
All that changed with the AIDS
epidemic and now Dixon and
Blood Program Services Director
Sandi Bolick worry that people are
afraid to give blood because of the
See Dixon, 3-A
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