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Vol. 109 No. 19
Crusade
leaders
to meet
A leadership rally Tuesday,
May 13 at 7 p.m. at Central
United Methodist Church will
be vital for the success of the
Kings Mountain Jay Strack
Crusade which is scheduled for
August 24-28 at John Gamble
Stadium, local crusade officials
predict.
Mike Ruth of the Jay Strack
Association will be in Kings
Mountain to preview the Jay
Strack Ministry and work with
local committee members and
volunteers in fulfilling their
roles in the crusade.
General Chairman Ronnie
Hawkins said numerous volun-
teers are needed in the areas of
counseling, ushering, choir, fi-
nance, manning the crusade of-
fice, youth, prayer, arrange-
ments, and others.
All persons interested in vol-
unteering in any way are asked
to attend Tuesday's meeting.
"We want to invite all mem-
bers of area churches to come
on board with us and come to
Central Methodist Tuesday
night and see what Mike Ruth
has to say, and then we'll break
down into different groups that
they might be interested in
working with," said Hawkins.
Sub-committee chairmen
ave already been announced,
in helping them carry out their
pre-crusade duties.
Arrangements - Chairman,
Ron Massey. This committee
will set up the football field for
the crusade.
Ushering - Chairman,
Richard Reynolds. This commit-
tee will be in charge of parking
cars and taking up collections
and offerings.
Telephone - Chairman, Rev.
Doug Peterson. This committee
will be in charge of calling
See Crusade, 5-A
Anthony:
Herb Anthony, 43, faces can-
cer treatments today in
Houston, Texas with the atti-
tude of a winner.
A new Christian and member
of East Gold Street Wesleyan .
Church, he says the devil is
putting a roadblock in his life to
test him.
A month ago Anthony
opened Mountaineer Appliance
& Repair in the former Ben T.
Goforth Building on York Road,
moving from his shop next door
after Ben T. Goforth sold him
the building and the Goforth
firm relocated downtown.
"I had lost my mother recent-
ly and my wife's father was se-
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Thursday, May 8, 1997
STATE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR - Kings Mountain High tennis sensation Jackie Houston, is pictured with
her parents Denese and Marty Stallings, and her high school coach, Diane Dooley after being selected North
Female Athlete of the Year at Thursday's NCHSAA annual meeting at the Dean Dame in Chapel Hill.
Carolina
KM's Jackie Houston is selected
NCHSAA Female Athlete of Year
By GARY STEWART
Editor of the Herald
CHAPEL HILL - Kings Mountain High tennis
sensation Jackie Houston received the Female
“Athlete o — Award at the North
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campus of the University of North Carolina.
Houston, who won an unprecedented four
Diane Dooley.
straight state singles championships and com-
piled a career record of 81 wins and no losses, is
the first athlete in the 75-year history of Kings
Mountain High School to win the State honor.
Houston's parents, Marty and Denese Stallings,
and other family members accompanied her to
the ceremony. Also attending were KMHS
Principal Phil Weathers, Athletic Director Ron
Massey, and Houston's tennis and track coach
areas of the ceremony. Supt. Bob McRae was
elected NCHSAA president for the 1997-98 school
year, and former football coach Everette "Shu"
Carlton was awarded a plaque for being selected
to the North Cazblina/ Athletic Directors Hall of
ame. Crest High women's softball lle
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coach
Kings Mountain was well-represented in other
Suzanne Grayson receiv : :
Make a Difference Award" from Region 6, Gaston
County Supt.
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Ed Sadler received
Distinguished Service Award from Region 6, and
the East Gaston High School men's track team re-
ceived the Pepsi Cola Scholar Athlete Award for
compiling the best cumulative grade point aver-
age (3.76) in the state.
UNC basketball Dean Smith received the
Legends Award, and numerous other sports fig-
ures were in attendance, including newly-ap-
pointed ACC Commissioner John Swofford and a
host of North Carolina high school and college
See Houston, 7-A
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riously ill but we were looking
forward to things looking up
for us again," said Anthony.
After just moving into the
business he was diagnosed with
Squamous Cell Carcinoma of
the right tonsil. He underwent a
tonsillectomy operation.. Then
he underwent the surgery for
removal of the malignant tu-
mor. He sought a second opin-
ion before starting radiation
treatments.
Anthony's brother, Lloyd
Anthony, had a friend who un-
derwent treatment for cancer at
M. B. Anderson in Houston,
Texas and they called for an ap-
pointment.
Cancer just a test
Herb and his wife, Karen,
went to Houston and this week
they returned to Houston for
the beginning of treatments
which will cost about $20,000.
Herb has no insurance and
East Gold Church has opened a
special account at First Citizens
Bank & Trust to help with the
mounting medical bills.
Citizens who want to contribute
may do by forwarding their
check to the Herb Anthony
Cancer Fund, in care of the
bank, or in care of the church.
"My pastor and I have been
praying and during a revival
See Anthony, 3-A
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Killian, architect
working on Ingles
parking lot issue
City Planning Director Steve
Killian and Ingles architect Paul
Harold of Atlanta talked this
week about how Ingles Market
can still have visibility of its
trademark logo while not ob-
scuring the front of the pro-
posed building on Oak Grove
Road and still use trees in the
parking lot.
"We talked at length about
the project,” said Killian.
Last week the City Council
returned Ingles amendment
which requested exemption in
the new ordinance from new
projects requiring trees in park-
ing lots to the Planning Board.
Killian thinks Ingles can have
an attractive parking lot area
beautifully landscaped. He
suggested placement in a dif-
ferent way the 17 trees that
would be required by city ordi-
nance in a 56,000 square feet of
280 parking spaces.
"By changing just a few of the
parking spaces this can all be
achieved and within the specifi-
cations of the ordinance,"b said
Killian.
Killian told City Council last
week that Council could not ig-
nore the state's building codes.
The proposed amendment, he
said, essentially gives an appli-
cant for a building permit or.
0] zoning permit immunity from “VY. SP Parking do
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city council actions. Because it
is retroactive, it means that
changes in the zoning maps and
zoning text would not apply.
Killian said the amendment,
if adopted, would set some
precedent for zoning ordi-
nances. He called attention to
state laws that say a council
may vest a project by approv-
ing a site plan in accordance
with its zoning ordinance much
like Council did when it ap-
proved the White Oak Manor
project. However, City Council
may limit vesting to portions of
the project and for a very specif-
ic length of time, he pointed
out.
Killian said when the
Planning Board turned down
the amendment request it did
so because the city had annexed
the site large enough for a shop-
ping center, zoned the land
General Business; authorized
the submittal of a $500,000
grant which would save Ingles
about $400,000 on construction
of a sewer line, changed an or-
dinance which would allow
Ingles to have an extra drive-
way and it would possibly line
up with the entrance to Gold
Run, should NCDOT approve
it. He said the planning board
determined at that meeting that
the main point of contention
was not the number, type or
size of trees but the location of
about 17 trees among 200 plus
parking spaces.
Killian said the the inclusion
of landscaping in parking lots,
along right of ways and along
property lines is called for by
the city's land development
plan. He said their desire was to
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get away from 25, 50, 100 a
200 space parking lots
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and not as pretty.
"To my knowledge no on
from the city has expressed a
concern that trees create crime,
harm personal property or en-
danger people,” he told the
board.
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Killian said he didn't know ff.
ed
the Ingles amendment would
be on the Planning Board agen-
da for the next meeting or when
Ingles architects would submit
a site plan.
Weathers Principal of Year,
Leonard is Teacher of Year
Kings Mountain High
Principal Phil Weathers was
honored as Principal of the
Year, and West School teacher
Hilda Leonard was named
Teacher of the Year at Kings
Mountain District Schools' tenth
annual service awards banquet
Monday night at KMHS.
A number of special wards
were presented by Dr. Bob
McRae, School Board Chairman
Ronnie Hawkins, and assistant
superintendents Jane King and
Ronnie Wilson to school em-
ployees.
Teachers of the Year from the
individual schools were Betty
Blalock, Bethware; Heidi
Cleveland County leaders
joined their counterparts from
13 other area counties Monday
to announce the formation of
Central Carolinas Choices, a
collaborative effort that will as-
sist government, civic and com-
munity groups and individual
citizens in together addressing
major challenges and opportu-
nities that face the region.
At a kick-off meeting held at
Kings Mountain City Hall,
Choices’ leadership and staff
said their goals are to help
make the area America's most
livable region, achieve man-
aged, sustainable growth, build
public consensus through col-
laboration and shared vision,
and ensure high quality educa-
tion and employment opportu-
nities for local residents.
"Choices' mission is to engage
all citizens in developing a
shared vision of their future. We
want to collaborate with region-
al partners to pursue an en-
hanced, sustainable quality of
life in our cities, towns and
neighborhoods," said Rolfe
Neill, chair of the new group
and publisher of The Charlotte
Observer. "This is a great place
to live, earn a living and raise a
family. We've got to work hard,
together, to keep our counties
attractive for business and indi-
viduals."
The initiative's primary pur-
pose is to frame and build con-
sensus on pivotal regional is-
sues such as transportation,
growth, education, and preser-
vation of natural resources, said
Betty Chafin Rash, Choices’ ex-
ecutive director. "Our job is to
act as facilitator and catalyst in
the collaborative process. There
are already a lot of regionai
Carolina Choices a regional effort
groups in placing doing part of
Choices' mission. Our challenge
is to help the exchange of ideas
and initiatives across county
and state lines."
Jim Crawley, Dean of the
Business School at Gardner-
Webb University, and Brownie
Plaster, Cleveland County civic
leader, are members of the
Choices leadership group.
In addition to Cleveland, the
Choices collaboration will in-
clude Anson, Cabarrus,
Catawba, Gaston, Iredell,
Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan,
Stanly, and Union Counties in
North Carolina, and York,
Lancaster and Chester, South
Carolina.
Key initial activities will in-
clude development of a bench-
mark regional assessment and
See Choices, 3-A
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Crawford, West; Sharon
Barnette, Grover; Mary Nantz,
North; Hilda Leonard, West;
Cheryl Lutz, KM Middle
School; Nelson Connor, KM
HIgh School; and Priscilla
Rickenbacker, Parker Street.
Other awards went to:
Mentors - Lynn Echols,
Dorcas Beasley, Randy Rhyne,
Michelle Sivy, Tim Echols, Pat
Baker, Dan Jones, Mike Rhoney.
North Carolina Association of
Teacher Assistants Advanced
Certificates - Judy Bowen and
Martha Sloan, Bethware.
Special Friends - Reliance
See Awards, 9-A
Signalization program
begins on King Street
Motorists traveling King
Street may have already noticed
that one stop light is missing at
the overhead bridge.
It's all a part of a new signal-
ization program underway, ac-
cording to Mayor Scott Neisler.
One stoplight was taken
down last week and Neisler
says a uniform traffic code is
beginning to take shape.
The mayor said state workers
will soon start measuring the
intersection of Mountain and
Battleground at the old bank
building and start stringing
wires. He said the signal at the
old First National Bank build-
ing will also be removed.
"This project when completed
will save the city about $60,000
worth of poles," said the mayor.
The mayor said road censors
will be installed by Department
See Street, 5-A
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