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Thursday, October 1, 1998
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This Week
Thursday
12 noon - Kings Mountain
Rotary Club meets at Ramada
Limited.
5 p.m. - Cleveland County
Fair opens at the Fairgrounds in
Shelby.
6:30 p.m. - Kiwanis Club
meets at Central United
Methodist Church.
Friday
7:30 p.m. - High school foot-
ball, Kings Mountain at
Freedom.
Saturday
10 a.m. - White Plains Shrine
Club barbecue at American
Legion.
Monday
7 p.m. - Grover Town Board
meets at Grover Town Hall.
Tuesday
9 a.m. - Kings Mountain
Board of Adjustment meets at
City Hall
7 p.m. - Cleveland County
Board of Commissioners meet
at County Administration
Building, 311 E. Marion St.,
Shelby
Wednesday
: 3 p-m, - 218th anniversary
celebration of the Battle of
Kings Mountain at Kings
Park. =
Mountain National Military ~~
Inside
4A Kings Mountain postal
clerk Millage Spires is retiring.
5A Nightmares return for
Kenya native David Toco each
time he sees the terrible bomb-
ing of the American embassy.
5A sth anniversary cele-
bration of the Battle of Kings
Mountain is Wednesday, Oct. 7
at the Battleground.
6A Cleveland County Fair
opens Thursday at 2 p.m. at The
Fairgrounds in Shelby.
11A Noah Canipe is 95
years old and still playing the
piano.
Deaths
Martha Miller, 85
Lawndale
Faye Hughes, 65
Blacksburg, SC
Sandra Ely, 48
Kings Mountain
Betty Thompson, 68
Grover
Joe Hord, 79
Kings Mountain
Mabel Ruley, 88
Huntington, WV
Jerry Langley, 55
Shelby
Rodney Hovis, 33
Kings Mountain
Florence Swain, 73
Columbia, SC
Ollie McDaniel, 84
Kings Mountain
Bill Stinnett, 57
Bessemer City
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Hearing set on Sunday beer sales in KIM
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Of The Herald Staff
By vote of 4-3, City Council
Tuesday set public hearing
for October 27 on a proposed
amendment to the city ordi-
nances to permit Sunday beer
sales.
The action came after local
businessman Ken Hamrick
appeared before Council for
the second time to seek a vote
on a change in the city's Blue
Laws. Hamrick was accompa-
nied by other businessmen
questioning the fairness of the
ordinance.
Voting to set the public
hearing were Commissioners
Gene White and Bob Hayes,
who made the motions, Jerry
Mullinax and Norma Bridges.
Voting against were Phil
Hager, Clavon Kelly and Rick
Murphrey.
White's motion to invite
representatives of the city's
ABC Board to attend the next
meeting and explain current
. state laws died for lack of a
second.
Mayor Scott Neisler, Hayes
and Mullinax concurred with
Hamrick that fairness to all
/ merchants was the real issue
because the city could not
eliminate beer sales altogether
because state laws take prece-
dent. Currently four business-
es in town are state licensed
for on premise sales which
start at noon on Sunday and
are permitted only where food
is served.
"Be fair to all, alcohol is al-
ready here," said Mullinax.
Responding to White, who
strongly opposed changing
the local ordinance, Hamrick
said firms who sell on premis-
es must supply 36 seats for
customers, operate a kitchen
and 60 percent of their sales
must be for food.
"Cities all around us permit
the sale of beer on Sunday and
Kings Mountain is losing sales
tax dollars and also other
business like groceries and
gas," said Hamrick.
"Big crowds at one or two
places in town that can sell
beer create trouble spots for
police and there is some price
gouging going on," he said.
Hamrick, who operates
Silver Villa Restaurant, said he
is licensed to sell beer on
Sunday. He said state inspec-
tors come by monthly to check
local permits.
The mayor read a letter
from Food Lion management
asking that Council change
the current Blue Law to per-
mit all businesses, such as gro-
cery stores, to sell beer on
Sunday.
White, who set a beer bottle
in front of him at his council
seat, said the deaths of 20,000
people every day can be relat-
ed to alcohol.
"So what if there is some
price gouging,” he said to
Hamrick. "I want to know
what the churches and all resi-
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See Beer, 5A
POLICE BUILDING COMMITTEE - Pictured are members of Grindstaff, Joe King, Johnny Reavis, former police chief and city
commissioner Bob Hayes, Captain Houston Corn, Councilman
the building committee for the new city law enforcement center
which held groundbreaking Tuesday. From left, Ken Cook, Ralph ~ Jerry Mullinax and City Manager Jimmy Maney.
Ordinance
re-draws
city wards
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Of the Herald Staff
Redrawing of the city's five
ward lines won't change anyone's
residence but will merely merge
the city's newly annexed areas,
City Attorney Mickey Corry said
Tuesday night as Council adopt-
ed an ordinance amending the
city charter and code of ordi- ;
nances to amend and reestablish \
the five ward lines. : A
Corry said the next step in the
procedure is to. make the proper
Pvorasment wh werd. |
clude a map drawing, and then
presentation to the U. S. Justice
Department for preclearance. |
Council also approved an ordi-
nance with the State Department
of Transportation for construc-
tion of 18 feet of sidewalk along
After a lengthy presentation by
: @ Cansler Street. The $50,000 cost
; “will be reimbursed to the city in
reaking New Ground ===:
City’s new law enforcement center should be open in eight months
Eight months from now,
weather permitting, the $1.7
million Kings Mountain Law
Enforcement Center should be
ready to open.
Mayor Scott Neisler, the
seven City Council members
and members of the police
building committee broke the
ground on North Piedmont
Avenue Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
Neisler said, recalling that a
"This is a super occasion,"
said a jubilant Neisler.
Neisler said history will
prove that city officials made
a wise decision in spending
the money for a facility that
will last 70 years.
"Fifty years from now peo-
ple will be looking at our pic- ~~ ¢
ture turning the soil today,"
1938 picture at City Hall
which shows that administra-
tion breaking ground for the
old city hall which at that
time held the police station,
fire department and public
works all under one roof.
The old police station,
which was the old historic
ity hall, was razed recently to
make way for the new build-
ing
We bit the bullet and al-
though critics say we're
spending too much money for
this new facility I believe his-
tory will prove us right," he
said.
Jim Stewart of
Stewart/Cooper Architects
says workers are ready to
start building and construc-
tion people are moving into
trailers set up at the back of
the site.
Shriners barbecue is Saturday
Shriners Tommy Tindall, Clyde Whetstine and
Lawrence Adams spent Tuesday afternoon chop-
ping up cabbage for slaw for the annual White
Plains Shrine Club Barbecue which gets under-
way at 10 a.m. Saturday at the parking lots of
City Auto and Truck Parts and the American
Legion Post 155.
"Tt takes a lot of fixings but everything is al-
ways delicious," said Tindall who has been active
in serving up barbecue for years. The local club
has provided hundreds of dollars to help crip-
pled and burned children and the barbecue is the
chief money making project.
Not only do the Shriners prepare the fixings
but they start cooking the barbecue at outdoor
pits in front of the American Legion Friday night.
"It's always a job but we do it for the children,"
says Adams.
Tindall says his crew starts getting the donated /
twenty 50 pound bags of cabbage together early
in the week before the day of the barbecue. At
Masonic Hall Tuesday Tindall's crew had the cab-
bage washed and ready to put through two
grinders.
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Plates will sell for $2 or two for $4, sliced
shoulders will go for $35 and that also includes
slaw and sauce, and barbecue plates are $5.
Barbecue
Kings
300 W. Mountain St,
Mountain
739-4781
Lawrence Adams, left, and Tom Tindall prepare the slaw for Shriners
(EP CF)
5.29 S. New Hope Rd.
865-1111
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engineer Alvin Moretz on water
and sewer needs, the board indi-
cated it would set a work session
to set priorities for needs before
approving bids for a water and
sewer rate study. Moretz said he
has found a number of problems
that need to be addressed in do-
ing repairs to the city's water
tank and installing a liner at Pilot
Creek Treatment Plant. The board
is expected to take action on
change orders for these two cost-
ly projects at next month's meet-
ing. Moretz estimated that it will
take about 60 days to complete
the work on the basin liner.
Moretz said the city could be
looking at a five year plan for
capital improvements in
water /sewer or a long-range
plan of 20 years.
In other actions, the board:
Appointed Ken Cook to the
lake commission representing
Ward 4.
Accepted the bids and award-
ed the contract for the Country
Creek gas project to Eagle
Pipeline Construction for $36,950; |
the Bethlehem Estates gas project
to Eagle in the amount of
$25,647.50; and the system-wide
tree trimming to Ingles Tree
Service at $26,800. The tree trim-
ming will be done on
Canterbury Road, the cemetery,
Linwood Road, the hospital,
Lackey Street and Meadowbrook
Road.
Set October 27 at 7:30 p.m. for
public hearing on a request for
rezoning from Howard D. Welch
Sr., 517 North Watterson Street,
Ben H. Goforth, 1113 Shelby
Road, and Mary Philbeck and
Charles L. Ruley, 403 York Rd.,
405 York Road and 604 Mauney
Avenue,
Shelby
1238 E. Dixon Blvd.
484-0222
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