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FETLAILEAI ANTS ARN EAS CPE EY FPA ES FEE TEAC CEE FETAL A EC FEA ENS CEASE TLE RE ERASE RIANA SARE RARRIT TRH RRB PET BRETT ESET LAR IRE OT aT AI July 18, 1996 WHITE From Page 1-A Bethware Progressive Club makes is returned to the school," said White. White said the Fair exhibit hall has become a challenge for her over the years. She drove a Bethware School bus for 21 years and has been in the class- room 20 years. A daughter, Debra Sizemore, is also a Bethware teacher assistant and a school bus driver. A son, Ricky White, of Morganton, comes home for the Fair and the whole family, including White's husband, Sesko, and their grandchildren make the Fair a real family affair. White actually signed up her husband in the Bethware Progressive Club two years ago. Mr. White says he enjoys the comraderie of the group and wholeheartedly supports the club's only fund-raising project. People come from near and far to the annual Fair, according to Mrs. White, who accepts en- tries from as far distant as York, SC, and Gastonia and Upper Cleveland County. "It's the biggest little fair in North Carolina and we go by the rules and one of the high- lights of my week is hosting a state inspector who comes to the fair," said White, pointing to the various awards the fair has received over the years. White said the exhibit hall is never unattended. Her crew is on the job along with Sesko White who volunteers as a se- curity guard. She said she will miss her right arm at the fair, the late Lillie Mae Jones who died July 1 of cancer. Mrs. Jones' sisters, Louise McSwain and Sarah Queen, have been recruit- ed as volunteers in the exhibit halls in addition to Louise Wright, Brenda Cook, Nellie Cook, Debbie Sizemore, June Wagnor, Anne McIntosh, Donna Parnell, Dot McNamara and Peggy Whetstine. The Whites reside in the Oak Grove Community and are ac- tive in Oak Grove Baptist Church. Mr. White is a retired truck driver. Mrs. White bowls on the J&S Electric team and en- joys softball but she said her grandchildren are the loves of her life. Jason Sizemore was re- cipient of the Bethware Progressive Club scholarship to attend UNC at Wilmington this fall. Carrie Sizemore is a Middle School student and Kasey Sizemore, fifth grader at Bethware, is the reigning Bethware Fair Queen. "Once the Fair gets in your blood you can't get it out," says White. Lightning strikes house and damages roof Lightning struck the roof of the home of Brian and Myra Johnson on Richmond Drive Monday afternoon and burned a hole in it. The Bethlehem and Oak Grove Volunteer Fire Departments responded Sparkling July Jewelry Sale ‘DIAMOND SOLITAIRES = -IN14KT. ! { | Hugs & Kisses Bold Gold Bracelet | i Reg. *995.00 | Gents Signet Rings . \ Engraved FREE When Xos\ Purchased At Arnold's 3 10K and 14K Gold From 999% | Gents Onyx (= a And Diamonds 57/4 SALE $119°% ¥ 1nd PETTY TTI | ARNOLD'S GETTING READY - An expansion of the exhibit area in the Bethware School gymnasium is underway by Bethware Progressive Club, sponsors of the annual Bethware Fair. From left, Stokes Wright, Ned Yarbro, Craig Mayes, Marshall Jones and Glenn Hicks, Fair Managers, and Fred Tate. FAIR From Page 1-A Hicks, a Kings Mountain na- tive, got the idea for the ex- panded exhibit hall when he and Jones attended a conven- tion of fair managers. Hicks became active in the lo- cal club in 1962 when Frank Hamrick was Progressive Club President. He attended Bethware School in grades 6-9 and graduated from Kings Mountain High School in 1964. Married to Vicki Thornburg Hicks, he is materials supervi- sor for Mayflower Vehicles Systems in Grover which builds cabs for Mack Trucks. He and Jones were appointed co-man- agers about a dozen years ago and the job stuck. Jones, who graduated from Bethware High in 1950, became active in the Bethware Club in 1970. His wife, Lillie Mae Jones, had helped register Fair exhibits for at least a dozen years before her recent death. His mother, Mrs. Blake Jones, 84, also re- sides in the Patterson Grove Community. The Jones and Hicks families have been active in the plan- ning of the Fair for a number of years as have other farm fami- lies in the community. They will start working on next year's fair as soon as the current fair closes. The 1997 Fair is expected to be a banner year with many fes- tivities planned to celebrate 50 years as a community fair. Stokes Wright, whose late fa- ther William Wright was one of the founders of the Progressive . Club, recalled that the club started with a handful of mem- bers but the enthusiasm was al- ways there. "The Fair was something we wanted to give to the communi- ty and has become a symbol of the good in farm life," he said. Margrace streets to be repaved Water Oak Street at the Margrace will be the first street paved in the city's current street paving project, says Karl Moss, Superintendent of Public Works. "We're waiting on contracts to be signed and then Asphalt Paving will be ready to work," said Moss. After Water Oak Fulton Road from Margrace to Ark Street is next and then Ark Street from Margrace to Maner Road are next in order of priori- ties. Moss said that city street crews were working this week to prepare 10 streets to be POOLE 808 W. King Street Kings Mountain, NC We Offer: Complete Eye Exams *School and Industrial Screenings Most Major Brands Contact Lens «Glaucoma and Cataract Testing paved-‘He“shtd ‘ther’ pristity streets are a traffic island at ATK and Cloninger Street and paving of Wales Street, Dilling Street and Hill Street in that or- der. Street paving at city-owned Mountain Rest Cemetery are al- so on the high priority list. Moss estimated that some 28 to 30 streets are on the paving list to be paved this year. Moss said crews have been busy this week fixing potholes and doing drainage work and will work the rest of the week preparing streets for paving. frets S00 Office Hours: Tuesday-Friday 8:15 am ‘til 6:00 pm Saturday 9:00 am ‘til 12:00 pm Closed Sunday & Monday 739-5581 wo THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD SUIT From Page 1-A city failed to satisfy statutory requirements for annexation by using insufficient data and erro- neously computing the percent- age of developed land in the an- nexation area. The suit challenges the Constitutionality of North Carolina's annexation statutes, saying they deny properly own- ers' rights to due process and subject them to taxation with- out representation. Industrial representatives and individual home owners protesting the move by the city contend the annexation will mean higher taxes, not an in- crease in services. The annexation study the city asked Benchmark Inc. of Kannapolis to prepare had indi- cated that annexation would be a good move by the city moving to overcome money shortfalls, the loss of revenue by the closing of Clevemont Mills and the forthcoming loss of revenue by new water recycling proce- dures underway at Spectrum Industries, the city's largest user of water and natural gas. The proposed annexation would bring in more than $29 million in property worth more than $100,000 per year in prop- erty taxes to the city with the ef- fective date to begin rolling ser- vices 13 months away after the city passes an ordinance June 30, 1997 with June 30, 1999 tar- geted as the completion of Phase I of the utilities construc- tion. A 1993 amended agreement to the City of Kings Mountain's contract with the City of Gastonia for sewage treatment stipulates that 15 months from the annexation of any territory that includes any sewer lines and appurtenances that Kings Mountain must purchase the sewer lines and appurtenances paying 100 percent of the depre- ciated adjusted cost to Gastonia plus the expense of meters. The contract stipulates that any funds received from federal or state grants or unreimbursed amounts paid by developers or Kings Mountain shall be sub- tracted from the adjusted cost depreciated from the time the same was placed din service by # Edwards commissioned second lieutenant in USAF Michael C. Edwards has been commissioned as a second lieu- tenant in the U.S. Air Force after having graduated from Officer Training School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala. Edwards is the son of Pamela M. and David B. Edwards of 108 Starmount Drive, Kings Mountain. He is a 1990 graduate of Burns High School and a 1994 graduate of Gardner-Webb University. Men's Dress Pants Ayo?” 1/2 oii Nl Mens Ties and Belts Wyo 1/2 o Gastonia to the time of acquisi- tion by Kings Mountain. The contract stipulates that the capacity of the Crowders Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant assigned to Kings Mountain in 1988 will not be changed as a result of annexa-’ Page 7A tion and transferring of cus- tomers by Gastonia. "I feel that we did the right thing in voting to annex this property," said Councilman Norma Bridges. "We did not take the action hastily." 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