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The two pieces of property
the county has options to buy
for an industrial park will take
high dollars to develop, an en-
gineer told the board of com-
missioners during a lengthy
meeting Tuesday night at
which the board made no deci-
sion on whether it would ex-
tend a 120-day option it took in
October.
First fatality Friday
claims Gail Stamey
The Kings Mountain area's
first fatality of 1997 occurred
Friday night at 8 p.m. on US 74
Business just outside the city
limits.
Trooper W. T. Norville said
the investigation is continuing
into the death of Gail Dean
Stamey, 32, of 509 W. Mountain
St., who died after being struck
by a car on US 74 Business.
Norville said Stamey was
crossing the eastbound lane of
U. S. 74 Business at Royal Motel
with Joe Dover, also of Kings
Mountain, when she apparently
ran into the roadway in front of
a 1986 Oldsmobile passenger
car operated by Robin Lee
Henderson, 35, of 111-18 High
Ridge Court, Kings Mountain.
Norville did not charge the
driver. He was completing the |
accident report Tuesday. to pre-
Hender
were her daughter, Amy
Blalock of 613 Landing Street
and Blalock's two small chil-
dren, Olivia, and Sarah.
Norville said that Stamey's
body struck the windshield of
the Henderson vehicle and
shattered glass cut one-year-old
Olivia Henderson. Stamey was
transported to Kings Mountain
Hospital by Kings Mountain
Rescue and airlifted to
Carolinas Medical Center where
she died Friday night.
The trooper said Dover was
impaired and said he must have
got ahead of Stamey when they
started to cross the road and she
was running to catch up with
him. Norville said witnesses re-
ported that both pedestrians
were wearing dark clothing.
Sgt. Bob Myers of the Kings
Mountain Police Department
worked traffic at the accident
scene. :
City of KM reviewing
Holiday Express plans
Site plans for a new Holiday
Express & Hotel are being re-
viewed by the city's planning
department but so far no calls
have come but there have been
plenty of rumors about a pro-
posed Bojangles.
Planning Director Steve
Killian said that Holiday
Express & Hotel will put up a
three-story 77-room building on
2.6 acres and occupy some
46,000 square feet at the N.C.
161-1-85 interchange in the areca
of the Ramada Limited and
Comfort Inn.
Jeff Mullen of Habitat Group
of Charlotte is the architect for
the project, according to Killian
who said the site is already
zoned correctly and the devel-
opers can move on it as soon as
the site plans are okayed and
the neccessary permits obtained
from City Hall.
Bill Fulton, owner of a large
tract of land adjacent to the
Kings Mountain ABC Store on
Cleveland Avenue, acknowl-
edged that real estate agents
representing Bojangles had con-
tacted him and had looked at
the property with an eye to
building a 3,600 square foot
restaurant with 96 scats at a cost
of $750,000 to $1 million and
employ up to 30 people.
"No deals have been cut yet,"
said Fulton.
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David Pond and Alex
Berkeley, representing the
Charlotte firm of W. K. Dickson
Company, evaluated the costs
for both the Grier Plonk Estate
250-acre tract near Kings
Mountain and the 329-acre
Shelby Loan North Site in
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til a client actually settles in the
park.
Engineers estimate probable
cost of developing the Grier
Plonk site near Kings Mountain
at $6,315,000 or $26,900 an acre
and the Shelby Loan North site
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cost $2,760,000 at the Kings
Mountain site and $7,644,000 at
the Shelby site.
The on-site project cost at the
Kings Mountain site is estimat-
ed to be $5,719,000 and at the
Shelby site $10,833,000.
These costs do not include
the cost of the property.
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change as the years go by and
most of the cost would not be
$11,386,000 or $34,600 an acre.
Site grading is estimated to
Environmental and engineer-
ing studies began in early
Shades of Grandpa's day! Now you can raise
chickens the easy way.
"Running a poultry farm is not what is used to
be," says Bryan Dellinger, 25, who built two
huge, modern, automated chicken houses last fall
and is now tending his second flock of 48,000 lit-
tle "dibs" since October. i :
The versatile Kings Mountain businessman al-
so reports to work at Reliance Electric every day
in the Welfab Department and is also a new
bridegroom.
Dellinger credits Liza Blanton Dellinger, his
bride of two years, with much of the success of
their new venture in the Oak Grove Community.
Dellinger grew up on a dairy farm and learned
to milk cows and feed chickens the old way - by
hand - at the urging of his.late grandfather Dub
Dellinger.
"I started thinking more about watching TV
and playing Nintendo and other things as a
teenager but the farm was always in my heart,"
said Dellinger about his decision to raise chick-
ens.
After graduation from Kings Mountain High
School and UNCC with a degree in Business
Education, Dellinger worked for United Parcel
Service in Charlotte and he and his bride, who al-
so worked for an accounting firm, also lived in
Charlotte for some time.
Something was missing from his life, he said.
When the Dellingers tied the knot they decided to
return to an environment they both loved because
they wanted to raise a family in the farming com-
Farming in Dellinger's blood
"We hope to build in the Oak Grove
Community in the future near our business and
on my grandfather's 200-acre farm,’ said
Dellinger.
"Grandpa Dub died in 1992 and he always
wanted us to follow in his footsteps,” said Bryan.
Bryan said he never liked nor even considering
studying agriculture in high school. He calls his
business a small time operation compared to
neighbors like Mona and Jack Scism who own
and operate a big turkey farm of five houses and
dairy operators Donald and Pam Bell.
"I have learned a lot from my neighbors and
Jack really helped me get organized and up and
running,” he said of Scism.
Brian keeps his flock eight to nine weeks and
moves them to a broiler house before a buyer
comes for them. He changes the shavings only
once a year, a far cry from the old days of raising |
chickens when shavings had to be changed at
least once a week and the chickens fed and wa-
tered by hand. :
The automatic feeders in his big chicken houses
are always going and the drinking line is full.
Monitored temperature controls mean the houses
run almost by themselves.
The saddest part of Brian's new business for
him is picking up the dead chicks, as many as
1/3 or 2400 of his crop. Some little chicks fall by
the wayside to infections that occur when the dib-
bie, susceptible to disease, can't live off the yolk
sack when it hatches. 4
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munity Dellinger loved.
Senior play slated at KMHS
The Kings Mountain High
School Senior Class will present
"Monty Python and the Holy
Grail" Friday and Saturday at
7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.
at Barnes Auditorium.
‘Tickets are $5 for adults and
$4 for students and senior citi-
zens.
The paradox of King Arthur
and his search for the Holy
Grail has all the ingredients of
British satire comedy and the
setting includes four sketches
by local artists, dancers in for-
mal costumes, and plenty of ac-
tion in a creative stage setting
which sets the scene for a crowd
of townspeople who want to
burn a witch at the stake.
"You have to have an ac-
quired taste for this type of dra-
ma but we believe we will fill
the house," said Assistant
Director Tonia Brown, a 1991
KMHS graduate who with her
twin sister, Tonie Anthony, and
Tonia's husband, Tony Brown,
provide some of the comedy
sketches for the show. They all
work backstage with their
friend, Kelli Melecik, and most
all members of the senior class
who are not on stage or in
dance numbers.
Betsy Wells, veteran senior
play director, says she's excited
that the students have "really
gotten into the feel of the play
and love the play which re-
volves around King Arthur
played by Joe Page. Wells' son,
Brett, as Sir Belvedere, has a
commanding role, Jennifer Kies
is the witch and Molly Blanton
is the beautiful Patsy.
Other cast members include
Matt Truelove and Matt Dover
as soldiers; Brian King as cart
master; Hiroki Nishiyama as
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Developing industrial park will cost bundle
November. Tuesday's presenta-
tions by the Dickson firm and
by David D. Wilson of Trigon
of Greenville, SC were results of
data collections from city offi-
cials of both Shelby and Kings
Mountain who would supply
the water and sewer and gas
depending on the location of
the plants. Kings Mountain or
Duke Power could supply the
electricity if the plant is located
in Kings Mountain, Bell South,
NCDOT and CSX Railroad.
Pond said engineers devel-
oped a conceptual layout of the
industrial park including parcel
layout, roadway alignments,
water, sewer, gas telephone and
electric based on existing topo-
graphic mapping.
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New policeman, car
top Grover's '97 plans
GROVER - Hiring a full time
police officer and buying a new
police cruiser are two items
sure to be in the next Grover
Town budget for 1997-98.
"We have set these goals and
hope to complete them early in
the new year," said Grover
Mayor Ronald Queen.
High on Queen's priorities for
the new year is public involve-
ment of people interested in the
appearance of not only Main
Street but the Greater Grover
area. :
Four officers are currently
working part time a total of 80
hours a week to police the town
and their hours were upped this
week by Town Council who
plan to crack down on speed-
ers.
Queen's goal is also to assure
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ing water from Kings Mountain
and is taking steps to demolish
old pump houses and close
wells.
Should a new library become
a reality in the new year or fu-
ture years Queen has the idea
that city property can be used
for a building. Councilwoman
Elizabeth Throop, who heads
the library board, is meeting
with her committee January 16.
Volunteers have given $1,000 in
seed money to start a fund
drive. Throop said at least two
acres of property is required for
a building and ‘parking facili-
ties.
Queen said that Council's
goal is to also to adopt several
ordinances, one of which would
deal with people who steal wa-
ter. "I have been in public sor-
vice for 35 years and have never
seen two incidents of water
theft in a short week," said
Queen. Another ordinance is
one that would require towns-
people to pay traffic citations at
Grover Town Hall instead of the
county offices.
Local businessman Robert
Roper asked Council to collect
back due bills and asked what
process was underway to col-
lect $100,000 plus in back coun-
ty and city taxes owed by
Minette Mills.
"We can pursue the matter,"
explained Queen, who said that
Minette paid $5,000 on
November 30, 1996 and used
six million gallons of Grover
water last month. Queen said
that the county would get its
money first for unpaid taxes
Le, wail ing or at y 1s
five years to see any of the back
collection money.
Lighting Grover Cemetery
and the installation of 50 more
gravesites on the south side of
the cemetery is also planned in !
“ the early months of the new
year. The Hardin family of
Grover donated an additional :
two acres for more burial plots. 5
Improvement of the down- !
town parking area was an in-
vestment that paid off for
Grover residents, according to
Queen. Parking and handi-
capped spaces are marked off in
a big area close to the railroad
tracks which provides more
parking for customers of the
town's shops. New vapor lights
were also installed in the busi-
ness district.
White Oak, neighbors near compromise
A compromise agreement be-
tween neighbors rallying to
protect their properties and a
local nursing home wanting to
expand is apparently near.
City Planning Director Steve
Killian said that the adjoining
property owners, White Oak
Manor owner Oliver Cecil and
White Oak administrators held
another meeting last Friday and
both parties apparently have
agreed on a compromise.
"This just shows that citizens
and private business can get to-
gether and share mutual con-
cerns before it becomes a con-
troversy and City Council has
to step in," said City Manager
Jimmy Maney.
Lou Ballew, an adjoining
property owner, said she was
pleased at the result of the re-
cent conferences between ad-
joining property owners of the
Kings Mountain facility and of-
ficials of the longtime nursing
home.
See White Oak, 5-A
opens Friday at Barnes Auditorium.
SENIOR PLAY - Namkhang Phannareth, Susan Putnam, Joe Page and Molly Blanton, left to right,
are pictured in a scene from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," the KMHS senior play which
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