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Vol. 110 No. 26
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Thursday, June 25, 1998
Kings Mountain, NC ‘e Since 1889 *50¢
Mayor, businessman to urge City Council to
take 'common sense' approach to sign ordinance
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By ELIZABETH STEWART
New McDonald’s
opening Thursday
The New McDonald's Restaurant opens for busi-
ness Thursday morning.
Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. Chamber of Commerce
officials cut the ribbon opening the new facility to
the public.
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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