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Business
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- Oil Company opens new One
~ Stop convenience store at Moss
= Lake exit...Peggy Paksoy joins
- staff of First National Bank. B5
- Helping Hands
Kings Mountain folks hold an
attic sale to raise funds to send a
oes cancer patient on a cruise.
Sports
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wid defeat East
Gaston 8-5 but
lose to R-S
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Mountain's
Anthony Ash is voted Wrestler of
the Year in the Southwestern
Conference. B4
Opinion
The Herald gets ready to take
on a new look...School Board
made right decision on smok-
ing...Reader upset that his parents
were victims of a drive-by shoot-
ing. A4
Schools
County funds are important to
overall success of schools’ budget.
Kings Mountain bands plan free
concert March 23. A10
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will take on a new look with next
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featuring stories on the successes
of the past year and what we're
looking forward to in the next
millennium...
A brand new weekly racing
feature, “The Inside Dirt,” featur-
ing stories on your favorite
drivers and results from local dirt
tracks... .
A feature story on one of the
county’s oldest residents and
some of the things she’s wit-
nessed during her life in the 20th
century...
The announcement of the 1999
inductees to the Kings Mountain
Sports Hall of Fame, and others
who will be honored at the annu-
al event... :
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Lousie Watkins, 82
| David Neill, 71
William-Christenson, 60
‘Charles Sweezy, 68
Ada Jenkins, 94
Ethel Jenkins, 92
Robert Ross, 76
Ada Wright, 87
Betty Moore, 63
Michelle Bailey, 26
Boyd Haas, 86
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City Council Thursday instruct-
ed City Manager Jimmy Maney to
update a water/sewer rate study
and give them options for imple-
mentation at a meeting in April
that may or may not include a rate
increase.
Councilman Jerry Mullinax
made the motion that Maney,
without the use of expensive con-
sultants, prepare the rate projec-
tions for capital needs projects
and pinpoint how much money is
needed from water and sewer cus-
tomers to pay for plans over the
next five years.
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After a lengthy special meeting,
Council also approved unani-
mously a resolution to proceed
with applications for grants and
Clean Water loans for industrial
sewer line replacement.
Councilman Clavon Kelly
balked at the suggestion to in-
crease rates in the next budget
and said he would never vote for
a rate increase. Kelly and ’
Councilman Gene White balked at
a proposition in the long-range
plans for water/sewer improve-
ments to the proposed Ingles
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Water-sewer price tag: $2.5 million
Grove Road if Ingles didn’t pay
the full cost of the project and said
that project probably should be on
the back burner.
“We need to take care of cus-
tomers who deliver the goods in
city utility revenue,” said White,
referring to big industrial users.
Mayor Scott Neisler suggested
Council take action to automati-
cally pass on any increase from
Gastonia in Crowders Creek
wastewater treatment plant costs.
Maney said the city is behind
See Council, 2A
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Super Markets project on Oak
ALAN HODGE / THE HERALD
Kings Mountain is the Gateway to Cleveland County, as evidenced by this aerial photo showing two major highways (1-85 :
and Bypass 74) that serve the area. The area is primed for residential and industrial growth. Read about the successes :
of some of the area businesses and people in the annual progress edition, “Countdown to 2000,” in next week's Herald.
City Manager says zoning
could hurt sale of KM lakes
Zoning by Cleveland County of Last week Bobby Maner, an ad- what the property is worth,” said
city-owned Davidson and City joining property owner, said he is Mayor Scott Neisler.
Lakes could be detrimental to the circulating a petition asking for Councilman Clavon Kelly sug-
sale of the property, City Manager county zoning of the property. gested tht the city move ahead on a
Jimmy Maney told city council “We have an offer on the table working document or contract with
Thursday at a special meeting. and we need some direction,” said a buyer to “get us off the hook with
Council voted unanimously to se- Maney. : ; the dam.” :
cure appraisals of the property. City Attorney Mickey Corry said Maney said language in the docu-
Maney said a prospective buyeris restrictions on the property could ments should address the concerns
looking at the property and sug- depress the sales but he recom- of property owners.
gested that deed restrictions be mended that appraisers should be Maney said the cost of a profes-
given direction from Council.
sional appraisal would run between
“We're at a juncture to decide on
written into sale of the property to :
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protect adjoining property owners.
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Kelly vows
not to vote
for rate hike
Ward 3 Councilman Clavon Kelly said Council
! may be “shafting” citizens if water and sewer
rates go up when they haven't been budgeted.
Kelly said he was all for raising city employees.
But he said “those raises had not been budgeted.”
But Mayor Scott Neisler charged that Council
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it does not move ahead on
critical water and sewer
improvements
Neisler urged Council
Thursday at a special meet- |
ing to “get the rates right”
because “we pay for it now
“It just sticks in my craw
when we keep including
the Ingles project when the SSS fi
original Ingles annexation “It just sticks In
contract calls for Ingles my craw when we
paying for the sewer line to keep including
serve the proposed new the Ingles project
plant,” said Kelly. when the original
“I will absolutely not Ingles annexation
vote to raise taxes or utili- contract cals for
ties during my term of of- Ingles paying for
fice,”said Kelly. the proposed
“If it’s a must, its a sewer line...
must,” said Councilman
Gene White. Clayvon Kelly
Maney said that Council may decide to re-
move the Ingles project from the long-range plans
for expansion of water and sewer but he said oth-
er needs are immediate.
“We're dodging bullets on noncompliance,” he
said.
Maney said that by using the Ingles money,
grant money, if the city gets itand other funds
that 2,000 or more of acreage could be opened up
in the Oak Grove area with water and sewer ex-
pansion by Kings Mountain.
White said he wanted to see the list of absolute
necessities and those most cost effective. “This
new line to town probably can’t happen this year
or the next but we wanted to give you something
to study,” said engineer Al Moretz.
Payment of projects could hurt the pocket-
books of water and sewer customers.
See Kelly, 2A
Railroad Avenue won't be same without Della
in service and then joined
Roland Turner’s sewing opera-
tion in the same area, doing the
billing.
At Parkdale she has worked
with seven plant managers.
Bell has seen a number of
changes - from typewriters to
computers- and from manual
bookkeeping to computeriza-
tion. She adapted to all the
changes and is recognized as
one of the company’s most
valuable employees. She has al-
‘so been a part of renovation and
other improvements through-
Nearly all her adult life Della
Champion Bell has worked in
the same block of Railroad
Avenue but in different plants.
Bell, personnel manager at
Parkdale Plant 5, is retiring af-
ter nearly 21 years with
Parkdale. ;
Della says she will miss her
co-workers but she looks for-
ward to gardening with hus-
band Giles and spending more
time with family.
The Kings Mountain natives
first job after graduating from
Bethware High School was
with nearby Mauney Hosiery out the plant.
where she went to work in the Shane Trull, plant manager,
plant but her talent for book- says Della has helped run a
smooth operation with her easy
keeping and payroll was quick-
manner and efficiency.
ly identified and she joined the
office staff. She worked at
Mauney while her husband was See Della, 2A
Della Bell is retiring from Parkdale
ings Mountain
Mountain St.
Gite i hon ton