Vol. 110 No. 36
This Week
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Thursday
12 Noon - KM Rotary Club meets at
Ramada Limited
6:30 pm - KM Kiwanis Club meets at
Central United Methodist Church
Friday
11 am - 7 pm - KM Optimist Club
BBQ at Community Center
8pm - High School Football Kings
Mountain at Bessemer City
TE RET .
Anthony Ash leads Kings
Mountain against Bessemer City
Friday night
INSIDE
Anthony
Hillman gains
185 yards in
Mountaineers’
win over East
Gaston
1B
7A Special programs planned this
i Military Park
weekend at
9A Relay for Life September 19th
-Kings Mountain Walking Track.
6B East School celebrates ~~ --
principal's 50th birthday
10B Grover Cemetery streets are
named
4A 8s year
old Jake
Bridges had
a ball at
Legion
World Series.
I EE TE SE TA SR STIS!
» Inside
Birthdays 9A
Classified 7-8A
Engagements 5A
Library News 9A
Obituaries 2A
Opinion 4A
Police 10B
Schools 6B
Senior Citizens 6A
Sports 1-5B
Weddings 6A
Sos
Deaths
Arlee Lail,
Kings Mountain
Jennie Hudson,
Bessemer City
James Dover,
Shelby
Maria Zimmer,
"Kings Mountain
James Everhart,
Kings Mountain
Krissy Hine,
Kings Mountain
Marshall Camp,
Kings Mountain
Pauline Knipp,
Kings Mountain
Six
By Lib Stewart
of the Herald Staff
Six candidates filed for the five
seats open on the county board of
commissioners on opening day of the
filing period Monday.
Incumbents Ralph Gilbert, Willie
McIntosh Jr., and Jim Crawley joined
Joe Hendrick, John R. McBrayer and
Norris G. Hastings in throwing their
hats in the ring.
Filing closes at noon on September
14. The filing fee is $68 and candi-
dates may file at the Cleveland
County Board of Elections in Shelby
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
Lh
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file for
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a
Hendrick, 70, a Democrat, who
resides on Moss Lake at 105-22
Northshore Court, Cherryville, is
retired county manager. He led the
ticket in the May Primary but Supe-
rior Court Judge Stanley Sporkin
ruled that all candidates must refile
and that both parties will hold
primaries November 3.
The U.S. Justice Department last
week precleared the election sched-
ule. A second primary, if needed,
would be held December 1. The
general election for county commis-
sioners is January 12,1999.
Gilbert, 75, of Fallston, a Demo-
crat, filed for reelection as did Jim
Crawley, 68, Republican, a former
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board chairman, of 322 Country Club
Circle, Shelby. and Shelby Police Lt.
Willie B. McIntosh J.r. 47, a Democrat,
of 219 New Bethel Church Rd.,
Lawndale. Norris G. Hastings, 60, of
305-1 Pinkney St., Shelby, filed on tii
Republican ticket and John R.
McBrayer, 62, of 4 Yates McBrayer
Drive, Shelby, filed on the Democratic
ticket.
Other incumbents on the board,
Joe Cabaniss, the board chairman,
and L. Ray Thomas are expected to
offer for reelection.
Under Sporkin’s ruling recently in
Washington, DC, the two candidates
receiving the most votes in the
general election would serve four
HOMES GET FACE LIFT
year terms, the next three would receive
two year terms and thereafter everyone
would serve four years to return to the
stagger that would have been in effect if
a consent decree had never been entered
into by the county and the NAACP.
Cleveland county had entered into an
agreement with the NAACP that
expanded the county board of commis-
sioners from five to seven members and
appointed two minority members, Mary
Accor and Bobby Malloy. Cleveland
County Association of Government by
the People sued and a federal appeals
court ruled in their favor, saying the
commission did not have the authority
to change the makeup of the board.
Grover
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former
mayor
by Lib Stewart
of the Herald Staff
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Retired
Grover Mayor |
Ronald
Queen was
hired by
Town Board
Monday night
as a consult-
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salary of $300
per month.
Mayor Max
Rollins said he had called on
Queen for assistance twice
recently and that the former
QUEEN
ROOFING HOUSE = Mary and Johnny Barber are getting a new roof on their home in the Margrace Community
thanks to a state housing grant administered by the City of Kings Mountain.
Home rehabilitation program early
Christmas gift for Margrace residents
two-term board member was
experienced and handled
numerous sewer problems over
the years. Rollins said sewer
problems left uncorrected could
run into big money.
The action came on a motion
by Councilman John
Higginbotham. The board also
amended the budget to take the
annual cost of $3600 from the
! by Lib Stewart
| of the Herald Staff
early present is a remodeled home.
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Killian.
square footage of the house.
50 years.
of her home.
under the income criteria.
Benchmark as the consultant.
For Mary and Johnny Barber and Sarah Jones of the Margrace
Community Christmas has come in September for them and their
The two families are among the 12 from Kings Mountain who
were approved by the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency
for the single family rehabilitation program.
Steve Killian, Planning Director for the City of Kings Moun-
| tain, said the program offers assistance to owner occupied
homeowners who have a low to moderate income for housing
rehabilitation grants. Although not an outright grant, the pro-
gram offers a deferred payment loan. Ag
“As long as they occupy the home or sell to someone with low
to moderate income or will their residences to those with low to
moderate income the money does not have to be repaid,”said
Killian said the grant money for each home is based on the
The Barbers have lived in their residence on Fulton Drive for 25
years and Mrs. Jones has lived in her home on Water Oak Street
“Qur mill village home is getting a new roof, a new
airconditioning and heating system, a new paint job, new kitchen
tile and cabinet tops, five inside doors, storm doors, windows
and carpet, ’ said Mrs. Barber who is very pleased with the work
being done by Pioneer Construction of Dallss.
Barber, who is disabled, was also pleased with the new look
and new conveniences of his home.
As electricians and construction workers worked inside her
four-room house, Jones said she was very pleased with the new
kitchen and laundry room, the new doors, new roof and rewiring
The city administers the grant program with John Gannis of
Killian says there is money left over in the grant fund and
other citizens who want to apply for housing rehabilitation
grants are invited to call his office at City Hall.
Killian said to become eligible for the grant persons must be
elderly, handicapped or single parent heads of household and fall
BUSY WORKMEN- Tony Wyatt, Bobby Gosnell Il and
Jerry Wyatt, left to right, work on the kitchen of Sarh
Jones' home on Watter Oak Street. The Jones home is
one of 12 being rehabilitated through a state grant
program administered by the City of Kings Mountain. | Restaurant and the parking lot
photo by Lib Stewart
contingency fund.
During the citizen recognition
portion of the meeting, how-
ever, former councilwoman
| Martha Byers asked the mayor
why he didn’t open the discus-
sion for public comment before
the action was taken and she
questioned several comments by
| the mayor.
“You said you promised Ron
| you'd look out for him,” said
Byers, who asked if a deal had
been cut between council and its
former mayor.
Rollins denied the accusation,
| saying he had used the wrong
| choice of words and said that
| Queen's experience as plant
engineer at Grover Industries
would be very valuable to the
town.
Byers said she came to the
meeting to complain that the
mayor asked her to move her
truck from the town parking lot.
“My husband's vehicle broke
down and it isn’t like you have
300 cars parked out here in this
lot,” she said.
The mayor rapped the gavel
after Byers had exceeded her
three minute limit for citizen
comment.
After the meeting Byers said
| she was really upset that the
| mayor and police chief could not
| have run a check on her tag and
found out that the car was hers
| before she was asked to move it.
| Byers is manager of Finallys
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| adjoins the restaurant.
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