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Bill Sherwood said the new facility boasts a face to face drive-through concept, unique to this area, and also a “made for you” production system, also unique to McDonald's. The New McDonald's will create 40 new jobs. Ten employees have been transferred from other loca- tions. “We plan to keep both McDonald's open as long as we have the business,” said Sherwood, whose son, Bill, will run the new facility. McDonald's also operates a restaurant in the Kings Mountain Plaza Shopping Center. McDonald's serves: three meals dnily and offers customer dining for 90 people inside the restaurant and seating in the Play Place for 30 more. A feature of the new facility is an outdoor playground area. Workers were programming the registers, con- ducting final calibration of the cooking equipment and cleaning up on Tuesday in readiness for Thursday’s opening. Patricks buys old Clevemont plant Patrick Yarn Mills Inc. is in partial production at the old Clevemont Mills plant on York Road. Mrs. H. Lawrence Patrick, owner, said that her ‘husband, the late Lawrence Patrick, had made plans to purchase the mill | before his death last August Mrs. Patrick said some employees are working at the Clevemont site and others are working out of the Patrick location on S. Railroad Avenue which has become crowded. “We just ran out of space at our old site and will have plenty of room to add more employees and production of more industrial yarn at our new site,” she said. Currently, the Clevemont Plant is being used pit marily for warehousing. Primaries scheduled September 15 A federal court approved new N. C. congres- sional districts Monday, clearing the way for Sep- tember 15 primaries. Filing for office opens July 6, the primary will be September 15 and the general election is Novem- ber 3. In the plan approved Monday, all 51,000 Lincoln County residents move from Rep. Cass Ballenger’s 10th district to Sue Myrick’s 9th District but even with 50,000 voters shuffling in and out of the 9th, Myrick will still run in a district that is about 90 percent white and heavily Republican. Myrick was in Cleveland and Gaston Counties last week. Mayor Scott Neiisler and local pharmacist Allen Propst want the city to take a “common sense ap- proach” to signs by amending the present ordinance to cover a medium size sign. Propst, the ownejir and operator of the new Moun- tain Street Pharmacy, said new businesses are “scared off” by the c ode requirements and they plan to ask City Council fo amend the present ordinance at Tuesday’s 7:30 p.im. Council meeting. Propst bought tlhe former Harper Pharmacy building on West Mibuntain Street nine months ago but because the building had been vacant for 180 days the ordinance stipulated he could not be grandfathered and he would have to put up a new sign. Propst said he does not object to moving his sign back from the street but he objects to the size of the sign required in the ordinance. Neisler said that the city had grandfathered many nonconforming signs which would not qualify un- der the city’s existing codes. Propst says small businesses don’t need billboard GROUNDBREAKING - Cleveland County commissioners broke ground for the new SH industrial park Monda bby | Howard Allen is one | pry fisherman. The Shelby resident aind native of Kings Moun- tain loves to take his faither, Lawrence, and uncle, Harold Allen, of Linwoc\d Road, to Moss Lake and put his boat in the lake al; every opportunity where they all fish to their hear{’s content. Allen says he may stiirt a petition effort to op- pose the new rates impay specifically the new polity to close the gates at 10 p.m. sharp. The new rates recommended by the Moss Lake Commission| means that Harold pays a $50 annual fee or $10 d| aily fee to put his boat in the lake plus a $15 annuial fishing fee or $3 daily and he can fish no later than 10 p.m. because signs have gone up at all gates | that the lake closes at 10 p-m. sharp. Since his relatives live dnside the city limits they each pay annual fee of $7.50 to fish in the waters or $1.50 daily and if they pu lit a boat in the lake the annual fee is $25 and the poly permit is $5. “I just don’t like it, City Council has buckled in ay. ang, From left, od Nae ha Kings Mountain People Giving blood is a habit for Kings Mountain insuranceman Bob EF. Maner. 3 The Kings Mountain man gave his first pint of blood as a young man serving in Uncle Sam’s Navy at the outset of the Korean Conflict in 1951. Forty-seven years later, Bob has donated a grand total of 33 allons and four pints, includ- ing platelets from 1990-97 when he spent at least a half day ev- ery time he donated to drive to Charlotte for the two-hour pro- cedure. “] never knew the names of the people who needed the life- saving platelets but many times I was told the donation was for Maner would give you his blood to do. A natilve of Wilmington, Maner saild that Davidson Col- lege changed his life. He had graduatec| from New Hanover High School and enrolled at Davidson in 1945 where his freshmen classmates were Charles “Ried” Neisler, now his brother-ini-law, and Red's brother, Henry Neisler, both of Kings Mountain. Other Kings Mountain |people in that fresh- men class included Jim Herndon, Bob Neill and Earl Myers. “Red talkied me into inviting Mary Somm|ers (now Red's wife) to a concert by Tommy Dorsey. Red and Mary got married be- a child hospitalized at Duke or Bowman-Gray Hospitals and I was just glad I was healthy : and could supply that need,” he said. Always a supporter of the Bob Maner American Red Cross, Maner served a term as local chapter chairman, getting involved be- cause it was the neighborly thing fore my wife Jenny (Jeanne Sommers Mgner) were married and we'll ci:lebrate our 46th wedding anniversary in Au- gust,” said Bib. Seet MANER page 3A First Carolina Federal | \ Kings Mountain 300 W. Mountain St. 739-4781 Thomas, Jim Crawley, chairman Jos Cabaniss, dedication of de PPG ef plant that would "... City Council has buckled in to legislators and to the Lake Property Owners Asso- ciation" -Harold Allen to legislators and to the Lake Property Owners As- sociation,” said Harold Allen. “These new fees put a hardship on fishermen,” said Allen, who said he had fished at Moss Lake for years and never seen “drinking and acting up by the fishermen.” “Trouble I've witnessed out there has been by lake residents who don’t want us there,” he said. size signs that stand 10 feet in the air nor three feet signs that don’t meet the scenic esthetics of the com- munity. “We're trying to blend into the neighborhood and we don’t want to put up a tall sign that would tower over the residences and take away from the neigh- borhood,” he said. Propst said customers like his store but they want to know when he plans to put up his sign. “Council says it’s supportive of business but I See SIGN ORDINANCE page 7A County breaks ground for KM industrial park Cleveland County commissioners broke ground Monday morning for a 240-acre industrial park off Vestibule Church Road as citizens celebrated in the sweltering heat what leaders called a history-mak- ing event. “This is a great day for Cleveland County and the celebration of a new era,” said Chairman Joe Cabaniss, joined by Mike Wilkins, Assistant Secre- tary for the N. C. Department of Commerce, and Frank Beam, member of the North Carolina Eco- nomic Development Board, at a podium set up ona hill in the center of the picturesque, sprawling tract. The seven-member county board turned the first shovels of dirt. Machinery waited in the back- ground to begin road building and development soon. Cabaniss predicted that the county-owned park would have the same impact on economic devel- opment that has been enriched by others over the years. “I stood in a pasture in 1958 and watched the yo py Allen says locking the gates at night will “deny public access to a lake that was built as a Kings Mountain water supply and people need to go to City Council and let them know about it.” Planning Director Steve Killian acknowledged that signs are posted on the lake gates that the gates open at 6 a.m. and close at 10 p.m. ‘The city is con- cerned with safety,” he said. Allen also objects to the newly-adopted family plan for lake residents which is included in the 1998- 99 budget which city council is expected to adopt Tuesday night. “The family plan is $250 a year which also gives a lake resident two boat permits and four fishing permits. That means they're getting the strip of land in front of the lake for $90 and that’s not right,” he said. “We've always endured some lighthearted kid- ding between Shelby and Kings Mountain sports fans but this is ridiculous and embarrassing to us now,” he said. “Lake residents are getting a better deal than the people who paid for the lake.” CLEANING UP - Inmates in the community work crews for the Division of Prisons are pictured cleaning up the roadways on King Street. Jackie Barnette, Public Works Superintendent for the City of Kings Mountain, said the city has asked the work crews to do cleanup projects through June 30. The clean up crews started at East School June 15. Gastonia 865-1111 529 S. New Hope Rd. Shelby 1238 E. Dixon Blvd. 484-0222
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