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North Carolina Press Association
Vol. 108 No. 18
Day of Prayer
Thursday at City Hall
Kings Mountain Sports
Hall of Fame pictures
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Auditorium.
crowd of about 300.
onships in the same year.
at KMHS from "1960- 77.
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KM Hall of Fame
inductions held
Three individuals and a team that made positive im-
pacts on a lot of people were inducted into the Kings
Mountain Sports Hall of Fame at its ninth annual in-
duction ceremony Monday night at B.N. Barnes [sme
Bill Cashion, Pride Ratterree and Fred Withers, who
combined spent over 100 years in teaching and coach-
ing, and the Second Baptist Church men's softball
team of 1973-83, which used sports as an evangelistic
tool to reach people for Christ, were the honorees.
Former New York Yankee great Bobby Richardson,
one of the country's most sought-after inspirational
speakers, was guest speaker for the event which drew a
Jackie Houston, a Kings Mountain High junior ten-
nis sensation who has won three straight North §
Carolina High School championships, was recognized §
as the ninth winner of the Special Achievement Award.
The award is given each year for accomplishments
during the previous calendar year. In 1995 Houston not
only won her third straight state tennis crown, but won
numerous other titles in junior tennis and also won a FE
state championship in high school track. Houston is
the only KMHS athlete ever to win two state champi-
Cashion, Withers and Ratterree all competed in
sports on the high school and/or college and profes-
sional level and after their playing careers all three de-
voted their lives to helping mold the talents and char-
acter of other young students and athletes.
Cashion was a bruising fullback/linebacker during
his playing days at KMHS, Gardner-Webb and
Newberry College. He spent 30 years in public educa-
ball team; former KMHS player and coach Bill Cashion; and former KMHS player and college coach
Pride Ratterree. More pictures on page 5-A.
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The 1996 inductees into the Kings Mountain Sports Hall of Fame are pictured following the ceremony
tion and served as assistant and head football coach at Monday night at B.N. Barnes Auditorium. Front is Fred Withers, former Kings Mountain High baseball
Taylorsville High School from 1955-59 and line coach coach. Standing, left to right, are Rev. Eugene Land, representing the Second Baptist Church men's soft-
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KM's Tom Trott receives
Distinguished Rotarian Award
Thomas L. Trott, charter mem-
ber of the Kings Mountain Rotary
Club who is affectionately called
"Mr. Rotary" by the club he char-
tered 38 years ago, received the
Distinguished Rotarian Award at
the recent 14-county Rotary
District 7680 in Boone.
The award honors the Kings
Mountain man for exemplifying
"Service Above Self" in daily life
as a Rotarian and a member of the
community.
Each Rotary Club in the 14
counties which comprise the dis-
trict has the opportunity to honor a
member for a distinguished tenure
as a Rotarian. The local also club
honors the two-time Paul Harris
Fellow by giving a $1,000 scholar-
ship annually to a Kings Mountain
High graduating senior in his hon-
Or.
Rotary District Governor Bill
Lawson presented the award dur-
ing ceremonies at Broyhill Center
in Boone.
A native of Salisbury, Trott
graduated from Patterson
Episcopal School in Lenoir and
from Lenoir-Rhyne College in
Hickory in 1940. He moved to
Kings Mountain in 1952 and
opened Tom Trott Insurance
Agency in 1957 with the slogan,
"Trot to Trott."
He served as chairman of the
American Field Service in 1961
and is a past member of the
Insurance Education Advisory
‘Beverly Hillbillies’
KMHS senior play
The hilarious "Beverly
Hillbillies" comes to the stage of
Barnes Auditorium Thursday,
Friday and Saturday as the Kings
Mountain High School Senior
Class play.
Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. night-
ly. Admission is $4 for adults and
$3 for senior citizens and students.
Betsy Wells is directing Paul
Henning's American movie classic
, David Wells is technical director
and Jane Campbell is choreogra-
pher.
The hilarity of the comic TV
show is maintained throughout the
plot which centers around Jed and
Granny Clampett (David McDaniel
- and Danah McKinney) who move
with beautiful Ellie Mae (Mandy
Jones) and cousin Jethro (Cathan
Randle) to Beverly Hills,
California and meet banker and
Mrs. Drysdale (Ricky Clayton and
Talia Quinn) and secretary
Hathaway (Becky Taylor.)
The plot thickens as the
Clampetts are blackmailed by
Colonel Foxhall (Jacob Moschler)
and his accomplice Emaline Fetty
(Nikki Ware.) Other characters in-
clude Darrel Myers as George
Turner, Antonio Brown as
Brewster; Kristy Peterson as Mrs.
Pennyweather; Jimmy Bundy as
Percy; Kelly Anderson as Gloria
Mundy; Jessica Cogar as Frederika
Collins; Holly Parker as Mrs.
Stokely-Smythe; Kelly Beach as
Mrs. Oglethorpe; Kelli Grigg as
Mr. Oglethorpe;, Antonio Brown
as Mugle Thorpe; Allison Hardin
as Groovy Monohan; and Robbie
Friend as Frank Richards. Senior
Class President Antonio Roberts
will be the announcer and enter-
tainment will be provided by
Kenya Houze, Jonathan Jackson
and Talia Quinn, assisted by
dancers.
Dancers in the show include
David Bradley, Ricky Clayton,
Becky Taylor, David McDaniel,
Mandy Jones, Darrel Myers,
Jessica Cogar, Holly Parker, Jacob
Moschler, David McDaniel, Danah
McKinney, Cathan Randle, Mandy
Jones, Kelly Anderson, Kristy
Peterson, Jimmy Bundy, Kelly
Beach, Nikki Ware, Jacob
Moschler, Robbie Friend, Holly
Parker, Darrel Myers, Jessica
Cogar, Kenny Baldonado, Debbie
Clayton, Ricky Clayton, David
Bradley, Becky Taylor and Allison
Hardin.
More than 100 students are in-
volved behind the scenes with cos-
tumes, props, hair styling, staging,
and tickets.
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Committee. He was past president
of the PTA and a volunteer in the
Kings Mountain District Schools.
He is an active member of St.
Matthew's Lutheran Church and
serves on the board of directors of
Mauney Memorial Library.
Charter president of the local
civic club, he has held perfect at-
tendance since the first meeting he
organized here in 1958.
Trott is married to the former
Selena Parton and they have two
daughters, Mrs. Larry Nunnery of
Raleigh and Mrs. Jerry Blanton of
Kings Mountain and two grand-
children, Molly Elizabeth Blanton
and Adam Trott Blanton of Kings
Mountain.
TOM TROTT
Sheldon Lynn, Robbie Friend, Kelly Beach and Talia Quinn, left to
right, put the finishing touches on the stage set for "Beverly
Hillbillies" which opens Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. for three nights
by the Kings Mountain High School Senior Class.
Primary
election
Tuesday
Kings Mountain and No. 4 Township voters will
join their neighbors at the polls Tuesday to elect fed-
eral, state and county nominees in the Democratic and
Republican Primaries.
Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. at
East Precinct at the Community Center; West Precinct
at the National Guard Armory; Grover at Grover Town
Hall; Bethware Precinct at David Baptist Church fel-
lowship building; and Waco at Waco Town Hall.
Elections Supervisor Debra Blanton is predicting
that only 20 percent of the county's 46,000 registered
voters will turn out at the polls. Blanton bases her pre-
diction on little interest in absentee voting.
Tuesday's Primaries will see unaffiliated voters
voting in the Primaries for the first time. Those voters
will have the option to state which ballot, Democratic
or Republican, they wish to participate. Blanton re-
minds that these voters at a second Primary would re-
ceive the same ballot because their choice from the
first Primary would be recorded on the books.
Chief interest locally centers in the county commis-
sion race where 12 people seek three seats open on the
board in November and in the three-person race for the
county register of deeds where incumbent Bonnie E.
Reece of Kings Mountain is being challenged hy Jane
Vanhoy McDaniel and Gaynell S. Scott of Shelby.
Since there is no GOP opposition for register of deeds
the Democratic Party would be on
the ballot for the November general election and there
could be an opportunity for an unaffiliated voter to run
against that nominee, Blanton says.
See Election, 3-A
Annexation hearing
May 14 at City Hall
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Public hearing by the City of
Kings Mountain on a major annex-
ation plan which will take in 758
acres, 150 people and Firestone
and major industries will be held
May 14 at City Hall.
A full-page advertisement in to-
day's Herald outlines the project.
The effective date to begin
rolling services is 13 months away
after the city passes an ordinance,
June 30, 1997, with June 30, 1999
targeted as the completion of Phase
I of the utilities construction.
In addition to the Firestone
Fibers and Textile Plant and other
industries along the Kings
Mountain Highway interchange,
the annexation would include the
Sara Lee plant off N. C. 161 and
Bali, Commercial Intertech and
See Annexation, 2-A
Council approves
Ingle's request
City Council Tuesday night
unanimously approved satellite an-
nexation of the Paul and Judy
Scism property on Oak Grove
Road which gives the green light to
Ingles Inc. for building a new su-
permarket.
About a dozen residents of Gold
Run Subdivision were in the
packed City Hall Council
Chambers as City Attorney Mickey
Corry read a signed agreement
from Ingles guaranteeing cost of an
eight inch sewer line to serve the
facility.
Ingles stipulated in the agree-
ment that it would pay the
See Ingle's, 3-A
Peak generation
City Council Tuesday gave the
go-ahead for a $2 million 4500
KW Peak Generation plant for
which construction will start in a
week or two on the North Gaston
Street Substation site.
Utilities Director Jimmy Maney
said the plant will be up and run-
ning by mid-September and will
shave the city's wholesale cost of
electricity with anticipated annual
savings between $475,000 and
$575,000 depending on the city's
billing rate.
Maney said that the savings will
pay for the plant within a five year
period and no increase in city utili-
ty rates will be necessary.
"If utility rates were to go up it
would be for capital projects, not
for building of the peak generation
plant," he told City Council
Tuesday when he presented the bid
tabulations.
The construction contractor is
McDaniel Construction at a base
bid of $1.8 million with additional
money for supplies, including a
transformer.
The apparent low bidder,
Hickory Construction did not meet
the city's noise level requirements
with a bid of $1.757 million.
"City Council has backed this
project from the very first talk of it
three years ago and members have
looked at similar projects in other
plant approved
cities and worked hard to take this
project to fruition," said Maney.
"City Council has been very ag-
gressive in moving forward and in
being careful in allocating $2 mil-
lion of the citizen's money to move
forward."
"I am 100 percent in favor of
this project,”said Councilman Rick
Murphrey.
Councilman Dean Spears ques-
tioned the projected five year cost
of maintenance of $267,750. Phil
Stanford from Carolina Engines,
caterpillar dealer, said cost of labor
on the high tech equipment is ex-
pensive and the contract guaran-
tees that the city will not be obli-
gated to make repairs.
"You've read in the newspapers
and heard it on television that
deregulation is opening up open
access to allow municipalities to
wheel and deal for power and this
means Kings Mountain will ag-
gressively pursue other options in
looking for suppliers of electricity,"
said Maney.
Maney said the new unit will be
tied into the SCADA system,
Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition, the city's state-of-the-
art high tech equipment. He said
Kings Mountain has taken the lead
among smaller cities in installing
SCADA and now Peak Generation
See Plant, 11-A
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