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Thursday, May 20, 1999 Vol. 111 No. 20 A hg gS gH Ho i 3 hp Since 1889 50 Cents ~ inside section C consi. DENTON MAYSE Seniors Elise Mayse, : daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Scott Mayse, and Seth Denton, son i; of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Denton, won the Outstanding Senior Boy and Outstanding Senior Girl Award from American Legion Post 155 at KMHS Awards Night Tuesday. See next week's Herald for more pictures and complete listing of awards. Decision Day is Tuesday night on several upcoming pro- jects under consideration by Kings Mountain City Council. City Manager Jimmy - Maney said citizens are invited to turn out at 7:30 p.m. for a public hearing on a proposal to create a partnership between the YMCA of Cleveland County and the City of Kings Mountain for the YMCA to run the city’s recreation program at the Community Center. Council is expected to vote on whether to lease the com- munity center to a three to five year period and whether to contract with the Y to provide recreation services for the city. Maney said details of both con- tracts are being finalized this: week and the full council and mayor will have those copies in hand before Tuesday’s meet- ing. Maney said one “perk” that a new arrangement could pro- vide would be year-round" swimming at the new city swimming pool adjacent to the community center. Maney said that Y officials have indicated that a “bubble” could be installed in the pool for heating of the water to provide year round swimming activities. At present the city spends about $400,000 a year toward recreation, including some $300,000 for running the pro- gram and $100,000 for capital costs. Under the new agree- ment, the city would pay the "it’s never been before. YMCA to run the program and reserve money for a contin- gency fund for repairs of facili- ties. Maney and Cameron ‘Corder, CEO of the YMCA of * Cleveland County, said at a recent council meeting that a YMCA in Kings Mountain would take recreation to a level The Kings Mountain YMCA would be governed by a King Mountain Board of Directors from the Greater Kings Mountain area and would not be a branch of the Shelby YMCA, Corder said at a recent council meeting where numer- ous positive comments were made by city council about the new venture. Corder also said at the meeting that no city employees would lose their jobs as a result of the changeover. The YMCA proposal will be the first item on the agenda for Lutz Foundation Scholars are two KMHS seniors KMHS Seniors Ben Howell and Paula Mercer were among area winners of the coveted Lutz Foundation Scholarships presented Tuesday. Page 7A ~ Commencement Time for area KM students This is commencement sea- son. KMHS seniors are fea- tured in a special section in today’s Herald. Other pic- ; tures from various schools are on the school pages in today’s edition. IY an Rd Libby Trott Blanton, recu- BLANTON letter on Editorial Page. A $15,000 reward has been offered for information lead- ing to the arrest and convic- tion of the suspect. Page 2A Recipient of the 1999 Cleveland County Poultry Hall of Fame award was Jim Yar here with wife Flora Lee. Yarbro was given the award at a banquet on the Gardner-Webb campus Tuesday night. BY ALAN HODGE Staff Writer Fans of feathered fowl had plenty to crow about at the annual Cleveland County Among the many special guests in attendance at the barbecue was Kim Decker of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Representing Agriculture Commissioner Jim Plenty to crow about ALAN HODGE /THE HERALD bro of Kings Mountain, seen feet. | YMCA public hearing Tuesday night the May regular meeting in council chambers at city hall. Also Tuesday council is expected to vote on a proposal to extend its water line into South Carolina to serve McDonald Entertainment’s new gaming businesses and a pro- posed hotel. This week Maney wrote Grover Industries and McDonald for official letters requesting the line and asked for cost participation in the project. See GROVER page 2A Developer proposes new medical building E&E Enterprises unveiled Tuesday a draft of a medical building proposed at North Watterson and East King Streets that could accommodate offices for 12 doctors . _ No estimate of cost of the proposed construc- tion was given to members of the city’s plan- ning and zoning board. The lot fronts 25x146 City Council will hold public hearing on the rezoning request from R-6 to Neighborhood Business June 29 at the regular council meeting. The planning board also took the advice ot - neighbors of property of Jody Champion at Linwood Road and East End Drive and recom- mended rezoning of Champion's property from R-20 to R-10. Members listened to concerns of various adjoining property owners who aired MRE Es BRL to develop a mobile home park, a subdivision or duplexes. Champion, who concurred with neighbors, said if the rezoning is approved by city council next week that he could build more single family dwellings on the site. See MEDICAL page 3A a OW. Commission approves land for Sara Lee County commissioners Tuesday night gave the green light to Bali Package and Distribution Center’s move to Cleveland County Industrial Park in Kings Mountain. er planned American Legion Post 155 baseball season opens Saturday night at home. Tony Leigh’s Mountaineers, resting two days after placing second i in the State 3-A Playoffs, are ready. Page 7A Cindermen’s best showing in State meet Saturday - John Bumgardner’s KMHS Poultrymen's Barbecue and awards ceremony Tuesday night. Packing the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center at Gardner-Webb University, over 400 poultry purveyors from Cleveland and part of Burke Counties gathered for an evening of food and festivity. Folks who attended the barbecue ranged from fellows right out of their fields dressed in bib overalls, to business types in suits and ties. No matter what they wore, or what aspect of the poultry trade they represented, everyone in atten- Graham, Decker praised Cleveland County poul- try production and carried a special word from Commissioner Graham to "keep on doing what you're doing." The poultry business contributes an estimated $15 million each year to the ~ Cleveland County economy. Given the size of the Poultrymen's Barbecue, it was obvious that a lot of help was needed in putting on the affair. Before it was all said and done, nearly seventy businesses large and smail in Cleveland County had given a hand to seeing that the festival was a success. The Division of Sara Lee Intimate Apparel s will purchase 38.1 acres of land at $6,000 per acre. Groundbreaking for the new facility, which will transfer between 450 to 600 employees to Cleveland County and add 100 m ore jobs, is set for June. Cecil Moore, Bali official, told commissioners he was very pleased with the site due to its loca- tion close to the interstate, existing facilities and Douglas International Airport. - cindermen played like cham- - pions in Saturday’s meet. It . was a photo finish with - nSouthern Nash High taking the win by a narrow 2.75 points. Page 6A dance had chicken on their minds and on their plates. Speaking of food, the meal that was laid on at the Poultrymen's Barbecue was succulent chicken cooked to perfection by Shelby barbecue folks Slow Cookin’. Golden brown and well-smoked on the outside, the fowl was juicy and tender inside and represented the best of Cleveland County chicken cuisine. See POULTRY page 3A The highlight of the evening was the presenta- tion of the Cleveland County Poultry Council Hall of Fame Award. An honor datin g back to 1992, the Hall of Fame Award has in 2 ' Gazzie Allen " Lester Biddix, Jr. Charles Clark, Jr. . Ralph Champion i Charles Wilson . Elmer Wheelus . Maggie Lalil ‘Lula Swink . # . BUSINESS 1vaiu ites ivens vans susssensed Church News Classifieds. .........o..vaivseases Education.......c..cceeueennne 1 ODItUAIIES ....cvvvurussernsnsnaninenns Opinion ........... Litvars iver eas FIRST NATIONAL BANK “This is a world-class corporate citizen and the first of what we think will be many to the new in- dustrial park,” said Steve Nye, Director of Economic Development for Cleveland County. ; past years “We are thrilled,” said Nye, who took the occa- TE ie to Joka Fiondnsk Pavia Tom, sion to thank the commission for for going for- hoe , , 1dges, Lawrence i : Hawkins, and B. Austell. i : werdwithiho park See COMMISSION page 3A City mulling new water department office A new water/sewer depart- - ment at the site of the recently razed 1928 water plant on Deal Street may be in the city’s future. City Manager Jimmy Maney and Water/Sewer Superintendent Walt Ollis said the city’s long-range plans are to build at the two acre site on Deal Street were the city’s first water plant opened in 1929. Ollis said the newer build- ings on the back of the proper- ty at the fence on Deal are used for storage. “Our space at public works has become cramped and we need to free up space there for more storage,” said Ollis, who has been plant superintendent since 1977. The Deal Street plant was built in 1928 and provided water from City Lake and later alyst for the construction of the city lake dam and the 1 MG Deal Street water plant, a major undertaking for a a town of this size at the time. The Deal Street plant and city lake dam were designed and construction work supervised by W. K. Dickson Company. By 1953 water shortage was a fact of life again. The weather had been dry for sev- eral years, then very dry and the city lake looked like a mud hole, to quote several local peo- Ollis said a pump was low- ered into a shaft of the old gold mine off York Road and Davidson Lake until the late designed by Carolina 1960s when drought necessitat- Engineering Company of ed the building of Moss Lake to Charlotte and built by Boyd provide water to Kings and Goforth Construction ple. Mountain citizens. Company. Prior to 1928 the Deal site City Lake was filled, pumps served as the baseball stadium connected, a 16-inch raw water for Kings Mountain HIgh line installed, and Deal Street School and area semi-pro teams. Ollis said failure of a tunnel idea during the Depression years to run water was the cat- NEE Celebrating 125 Years water plant completed and put into operation in 1929. This insured the city a plentiful water supply and a modern plant to treat it. This dam was Kings Mountain W. Mountam St. Si LY li) (EET OTE RD IAS! water was pumped out. At first this was pumped into a wood- en trough and carried to the stream. When it became appar- ent they were losing a large portion of the flow in evapora- RRA’ REIS > Rd 865-1111 tion prior to reaching the lake, pipe was borrowed from the Corp of Engineers. City crews and trucks were sent to Arkansas to bring it back and the pipes connected to the water plant. Water was also pumped to the water plant from any other local streams not dry. Local folks remember seeing fire hoses strewn along East King from east of town. Drought and expansion of local industries pointed to the limited volume ot dependable water available from these streams. See WATER page 3A Shelby | | [ |
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