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Vol. 110 No. 39
This Week
Thursday
12 noon - Kings Mountain
Rotary Club meets at Ramada
Limited.
4 p.m. - Cleveland County
Economic Development
Commission meets, first floor
conference room, Cleveland
County Administration
Building, Shelby.
6:30 p.m. - Kings Mountain
Kiwanis Club meets at Central
United Methodist Church.
Friday
7:30 pm. - High school foot-
ball, Kings Mountain at Crest.
Monday
3:30-8 p.m. - Bloodmobile in
memory of Jim Dingus, First
Baptist Church, Grover.
7 p.m. - Kings Mountain
Woman's Club will meet at the
Woman’s Club, East Mountain
Street.
Tuesday
7:30 p.m. - Kings Mountain
City Council meets at City Hall.
Inside
1B
Ever since
King's
Mountain
High School
has had a
football score
clock, Delbert
Dixon has
been running
it and doing
an. excellent
job.
1B
Defense shines in Kings
Mountain’s 7-6 win over Shelby
Friday night at Gamble
St lium.
2A
74th
annual
Cleveland
County Fair
begins
Thursday,
October 1 at
the
Fairgrounds
in Shelby.
8A
Ethel
Yarbro of
Kings
Mountain cel-
ebrates her
90th birthday.
10A
Eva Penland is 98 years old
and still loves to go fishing.
DEATHS
Surponesay Smith, 62
Blacksburg, SC
Sarah Brittain, 76
Kings Mountain
Mary Washington
Kings Mountain
Nancy Sutton, 71
Kings Mountain
Leola Tate, 95
Kings Mountain
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Thursday, September 24, 1998
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KM's first
Relay for Life
huge success
24-hour walk-a-thon raises
$27,000 for cancer research
Kings Mountain's first annual Kings
Mountain Cancer Society Relay for Life raised
$27,000 during a 24-hour period marked by a
solemn ceremony lighted by 500 luminaries and
festive activities.
More than 50 survivors walked the first lap
around the city's walking track Saturday morning
and several, including Joe Smith and Ruby
Alexander, spoke to the 300 plus people who at-
tended.
Chairman Mike Neely pronounced the event a
huge success. Goal of the benefit was $25,000.
Members of the planning committee met
Wednesday at noon to wrap up the campaign
and to start planning for next year's event which
may be held in the spring.
"We are so appreciative for the community's
support for this worthwhile cause which will
help fight cancer in our community," said Neely.
The weatherman provided good weather for
the event which drew about 300 people to the
Saturday evening luminary service and several
hundred to the day-long event.
City to move
on new PD,
Davidson Park
City officials are shooting for an early date next
week for groundbreaking for the new Kings
Mountain Law Enforcement Center on Piedmont
Avenue.
City Manager Jimmy Maney said construction
field office/ trailers have already gone up on the
property and Stewart and Cooper Architects are
ready to assign the project manager and site man-
ager and complete the lists of personnel and con-
tact people for the big project estimated to cost
over $1 million.
City Council is expected to set the date for
groundbreaking at Tuesday's 7:30 p.m. September
Council meeting at City Hall.
Maney said Champion Contracting will be
moving into the Davidson Park this week with
heavy equipment to finish up the new soccer and
baseball fields. Maney said the fields are expected
to be seeded before fall.
The recreation complexes at Deal Street, the
Community Center and Davidson Park are major
building projects of the city of Kings Mountain
for which construction has been underway/and
or completed this summer.
Another major item of business on the agenda
is the approval of a rate study proposal. Council
is expected to authorize the manager to proceed
on the project by amending the budget for the
contract amount. Maney said if Council gives the
green light the rate study should be ready for
Council to take a look at it in the next 60 to 90
days. ;
The board is also expected to set the dates for
three public hearings on rezoning of property.
School Board discusses
long-range facility goals
"A long-range facility study of Kings Mountain
District Schools was discussed at the weekend
school board retreat in Boone and Supt: Dr. Bob
McRae said this may be a priority as the board
moves to interview architects for the proposed
new grades 5-6 school.
Four Members of the board, Chairman Ronnie
Hawkins, B. S. Peeler, Shearra Miller and Dr.
Larry Allen attended with McRae, Assistant
Superintendents Dr. Jane King and Ronnie
Wilson. Board member Melony Bolin was absent
due to illness.
Allison Schafer of the North Carolina School
Boards Association gave a legislative update and
talked about boardsmanship roles as a feature of
the meeting.
King, Wilson and McRae reviewed a number of
items from administrative to personnel and in-
structional and a report from the meeting will be
on the agenda for the October meeting of the
board of education.
Kings Mountain area citizens raised $27,000 in the town's first annual Relay for Life Saturday at the Kings
Mountain Walking Track. Hundreds of individuals and teams turned out to take part in the event. Photos
above were taken during the "Cancer Survivor's Lap" which kicked off the event. The photo at top right shows
Kings Mountain fireman Bill Ware pushing his wife, Joann, and the bottom photo shows a host of local resi-
dents who have beaten the disease.
Also on the agenda for the October meeting
will be a presentation by Kings Mountain High
School senior Amanda Johnsonbaugh who has
written the board about her concerns for "second
hand smoke."
Hawkins said the board discussed
Johnsonbaugh's concerns that Gamble Stadium is
not smoke free.
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WORLD'S LARGEST -This Xorella conditioning unit in the Spectrum plant in Kings Mountain is
the world's largest computer controlled unit.
ings Mountain ol
0 W. Mountain St.
739-4781
Kings Mountain company
35th on state’s top 100 list
Spectrum Dyed Yarns is
building a fully automated dye-
ing and chemical dispensing
system and is considering robo-
tizing its package dye depart-
ment and preparation area,
which may be a first for most
industries.
The Kings Mountain compa-
ny houses the world's largest
computer controlled Xorella
conditioning unit and has ex-
panded company wide with
state of the art technology
which has kept revenues high.
Howard Jones, corporate di-
rector of human resources at
Spectrum's Kings Mountain
headquarters, credits
Spectrum's investment in new
technology for the progress
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which led to the firm's placing
for numerous years on the pres-
tigious North Carolina 100
which ranks those companies
which place in the $100-$250
million revenue category.
Spectrum moved up nine spots
on the list this year to No. 35.
The local plant was among
two in the county who made
the list. Ray Thomas Petroleum
of Shelby ranked 47th.
On any given work day a
visitor to the Patterson Road
plant is fascinated by the new
technology at work. Robots take
information from computers
and before your eyes you see
boxes being assembled along
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