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Vol. 111 No. 02
Thursday, January 14, 1999
INSIDE
Chapel Hill bound
; ny Kings
. Mountain
High football
star Mariko
Feemster has
committed to
playing foot-
ball and get-
ting his high-
er education
at the
University of
North
Carolina. B1
FEEMSTER
Headed to East-West
: Kings
|g Mountain
High football
star Julius
J to playin the
East-West All-
Star Game,
and teammate
Frank Hopper
has been cho-
sen as an al-
* ternate. B1
CURRY
Staring for Deacons
Kings Mountain sophomore
Jackie Houston expects to play
the #1 or #2 singles position for
the Wake Forest women’s tennis
team this spring. B3
Building for seniors?
Kings Mountain Senior
Center Advisory Board plans to
ask City Council for study for a
proposed new building. A3
Countdown to 2000
. There will be plenty of cele-
brations around the nation as
the new millennium approach-
es. A6
Ice storm was costly
The recent ice storm was cost-
ly, not only to government
agencies that had to work over-
time to restore power, but to cit-
izens who had to deal with lack
of heat and broken water pipes.
Ab
Looking to year 2000
Kings Mountain District
Schools is asking for public in-
put as it prepares its calendar
for the 2000-2001 school year.
A7
Taking course on road
Cleveland Community
College takes its computer
courses on the road as a public
service to area businesses. A8
THIS WEEK
THURSDAY
12 noon - Kings Mountain
Rotary Club, Ramada Ltd.
6:30 p.m. - Kings Mountain
Kiwanis Club, Central United
Methodist Church.
7 p.m. - John H. Moss
Reservoir Commission, Kings
Mountain City Hall
7 p.m. - Kings Mountain
American Legion Post 155
meets t Legion building.
7 p.m. - White Plains Shrine
Club meets at Masonic Lodge.
MONDAY
Martin Luther King holiday.
All schools, government agen-
cies, and post office will be
closed. g
9-11 a.m. - Free health fair,
Bethlehem Baptist Church fel-
lowship building.
TUESDAY
7 p.m. - Planning and Zoning
Board meets at City Hall.
Cleveland
oS
OP sweeps Coun
Willie McIntosh leads the way with 5,994 votes
went to the polls.
County voters
elected the first
Republican
majority ‘coun-
ty commission |
in the history Bi
of the county
Tuesday, oust-
ing three in-
cumbents as
10,405 people
In Kings Mountain the off
election produced a heavier
turnout than expected and as
expected the local candidates
Charlie Harry, of Grover, who
won election to a four year
term, and incumbent Mary
Accor, of Kings Mountain, was
defeated, had strong support.
Tim Moore, Kings Mountain
lawyer and acting chairman of
the Cleveland County GOP,
credited the GOP win to the
quality of the candidates and
the “five very solid candidates
well known in the county.”
“We conducted a strong get
out the vote campaign and were
realistically expecting to win
three seats,” said Moore, opti-
mistic with voting trends in the
county. “Of course, we are obvi-
ously pleased with the results.”
Although the top votegetter
was a Democrat, the Republican
sweep assures the continuation
of a working Republican major-
ity on the previously seven
member board cut to five by a
federal judge’s order.
Shelby Police Lieutenant
Willie McIntosh led the ticket
with 58 percent of the vote,
5,994. He was the only black of
See Election, 5A
CABANISS
(pany
CRAWLEY HENDRICK
BLACKHAWK ON THE BALLFIELD- An Army "Blackhawk" helicopter landed at East School
Tuesday as part of the school's "Starbase” prograr. Here, teachers and students check out the
big bird.
RIDIN’ HIGH
Starbase program helps East students improve math and science skills
By Alan Hodge
East School in Kings Mountain
was all excitement Tuesday morning
when an Army helicopter touched
down on the ball field. No, it wasn't
an invasion or crash, but all part of
the "Starbase" of North Carolina
program.
Started in Michigan in 1989,
"Starbase" is an educational enrich-
ment program for students in
grades 4-6: The goal of the program
is to give "Cadets" hands on oppor-
tunities to improve their skills in
math and/or science in a drug free
environment. Another important as-
pect of the program is to build self
esteem and confidence.
To teach and inspire the stu-
dents,"Starbase" brings together ed-
ucators and military personnel in a
unique way. This team effort pro-
vides a support system for students
as well as creating an excellent edu-
cational environment. Just a few of
the many courses that "Starbase"
students may participate in are
model rocketry, geography, shuttle
science, aerodynamics, and goal set-
ting.
When the Army UH-60
"Blackhawk" helicopter first came
into view Tuesday morning, the kids
at East School knew they were going
to be in for an unforgettable day. As
pilot CW2 Greg Calvert from
Salisbury eased the big green bird
down onto the school grounds, all
eyes were on his smooth perfor-
mance.
After the ship was secured,
"Starbase" volunteers, including
Major General James Emerson,
headed to the school auditorium for
a special program explaining what
"Starbase" can mean to students and
teachers alike.
"We visit at least 20 school per
year in North Carolina,” General
Emerson said. "We want to stimulate
the student's interest in science and
math as well as deliver an anti-drug
message."
As part of the program, General
Emerson and his volunteers handed
out dog-tags made especially for
East School's 4th and 5th graders
who would be taking part in
"Starbase." As each child received
his tags, and assignment within the
program, the excitement was elec-
tric.
See Starbase, 5A
Anthony Guy
loses courageous
bout with cancer
God had other plans for Anthony Edgar
Guy, 24, and the young Kings Mountain artist
lost his courageous fight with brain cancer and
died January 9, 1999 in Carolinas Medical
Center after being airlifted January 5 from
Mexico where he
was undergoing
treatments.
“We are griev-
ing for ourselves
because we didn’t
have more time
with him,” said his
father, Ed Guy.
“He was the
light of our lives,”
said his mother,
Judy Beard Guy.
Anthony's
beautiful paintings
and his sketches of
his family and his
ANTHONY GUY
home in Walnut
Acres stood out in the abundance of floral trib-
utes at Harris Funeral Home Tuesday.
Memorial services were conducted by his pas-
tor, Rev. Dick Newsome, at 4 p.m. Tuesday at
First Presbyterian Church. Burial was in
Patterson Grove Baptist Church cemetery.
Anthony’s family and a host of Kings
Mountain friends rallied around him in recent
months as his parents and brother, Jeff, prayed
for a miracle and took Anthony to Mexico for
treatments.
“You don’t give up, you just try to do all you
can,” said the father, a teacher at Davidson
School. Guy said he will never be able to thank
Kings Mountain people for their love and
friendship.
The family planned to come home to a New
Year's celebration with Anthony but his condi-
tion worsened and they brought him by air
ambulance, not to the home he loved filled
with his pen and ink sketches and flowers he
grew, but to Carolinas Medical Center in
Charlotte.
Fate could have had a hand, said Guy, in the
friendship that developed at the 24-bed
Mexican clinic between Anthony’s older broth-
er, Jeff, and Talaba Aquilaur, a lab technician
who also helped nurse Anthony. The young
woman returned with the Guys to Kings
Mountain and she and Jeff Guy plan a spring
wedding.
See Guy, 5A
Each day business as usual for Zeb Plonk, 91
By Alan Hodge
When you step into Zeb Plonk's
room at EdenGardens of Kings
Mountain, the first thing you notice is
how much it looks like a businessman's
office.
First, there's the tall file cabinet in
one corner. A desk with papers and
letters neatly arranged takes another
space. A concise list of phone numbers
hangs on the wall. There's a good rea-
son for all this order.
Plonk, who celebrates his 91st birth-
day this Friday, spent 42 years as an ex
ecutive with Liberty Mutual Insurance
of Boston before retiring as vice presi-
dent of the company. During his years
as an insurance industry leader, Plonk
rose from claims adjuster to a position
where he oversaw Liberty Mutual's en-
trance into the computer age.
Not just a businessman's business-
man, Plonk can also claim to be a fel-
low whose athletic accomplishments
equal his professional achievements. A
star baseball, basketball, and football
player during his school years, Plonk
was elected to the Kings Mountain Hall
of Fame in 1994.
Despite his impressive deeds behind
a desk and on the field, Plonk hasn't
forgotten his roots in Kings Mountain.
"I grew up on my parent's 200 acre
farm," Plonk said. "There were ten of us
children who helped our parents
Clarence and Ellen Plonk do the farm
work."
See Plonk, 5A
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