Bill Ivey ps a fresh coat of paint
on Davidson School. ER
Summer is busy time
for school maintenance
While most students may be
living the life of leisure, it’s the
busiest time of the year for
Kings Mountain Schools
Maintenance Department
which is busy getting facilities
ready for the 1999-2000 term.
3A ;
Area schools present
end of year awards
Grover, Bethware and West
Elementary Schools recently
held their end of the year
awards ceremonies. See stories
and pictures in Section B.
Wink Russell's small
garden big producer
While the heat and dry
weather is taking its toll on
most yards and gardens, Wink
Russell's garden on Henry
Street is a beautiful patch of
ground. 4A :
Kings Mountain Sailor
aids Kosovo relief effort
Kings Mountain Sailor
Brandon Kelly is serving on the
aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt
off the coast of Yugoslavia. 7B
EdenGardens resident
honored by Kiwanians
The Kings Mountain Kiwanis
Club last week presented the
George F. Hixon Fellowship
award to Lena McGill of
EdenGardens, in memory of her
husband, charter member John
McGill. 5A
Mountaineer pitchers
sign with Gardner-Webb
Right-hander Eric Boyd and
left-hander Seth Denton, who
pitched Kings Mountain's
Mountaineers into the third
round of the state 3A playoff,
have signed to play their col-
lege ball with Gardner-Webb’s
Bulldogs. 7A
Lee Dixon, 85
Kings Mountain
Otis Greene, 80
Kings Mountain
Vemon Smith, 85
Kings Mountain
Helen Dellinger, 73
Kings Mountain
JoAnn Ware, 60
Kings Mountain
Nancy Wilson, 75
Kings Mountain
Irene McDaniel, 84
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Vol. 111 No. 23
Mayor Neisler
probably won’t
seek reelection
The race
for Mayor of
Kings
Mountain is
now wide
open with
one already-
declared can-
didate, for-
mer mayor
Kyle Smith,
and at least
three other
council members rumored to
be running.
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Smith to run for mayor
Although Mayor Scott
Neisler hasn't officially de-
clared his intentions, he isn’t
expected to offer for another
term at the helm of city gov-
ernment.
Three other council mem-
bers rumored to be running for
mayor are Rick Murphrey,
Norma Bridges, mayor pro
- tem, and former chief of police
Bob Hayes.
Murphrey says he plans to
definitely get his hat in the
race but he is waiting to make
his announcement until filing
date. a
Both Bridges and Hayes ac-
knowledged they were
mulling the idea of running for
office but would not make
their decision until the candi-
date filing starts July 2. Both
said if they don’t offer for may-
or.they plan to offer for reelec-
tion in their present posts.
Neisler is expected to an-
nounce next week that he will
not run for reelection. He said
this week he wanted to talk to
family, friends and city staffers
before formally announcing
his decision.
Smith says his experience
at city hall is a plus.
Smith served as Kings
Mountain mayor from 1987-91
and it was during his term of
office that Kings Mountain in-
stituted the present city man-
ager form of government. Prior .
to joining the city, Smith
served a 10-year term on the
Kings Mountain Board of
Iee Cream Month
Customer Gercia Vinson eagerly reaches for the jumbo milkshake t
fountain employee Lisa Smallwood just made for her. It was Vinso
Drug in Kings Mountain, but probably not her last.
Ice eream has been a summer treat for centuries
ALAN HODGE/THE HERALD
hat Griffin Drug Services soda
n's first milkshake: from Griffin
Ice cream traces its roots back
Education, giving up the last
two years of that term to run
for mayor.
A 20-year Navy veteran of
the Korean Conflict and
Vietnam, Smith retired from
ABB Combustion in Kings
Mountain in 1990.
“lam disturbed at the way
things are going and I want to
see fairness back at city hall, no
reflection on the present may-
or,” said Smith.
“I'd like to see us continue to
grow and upgrade the water
department and bring that
new water line from Moss
Lake to town because if the
current line breaks we are in
big trouble.”
Smith said the city has made
great strides this year in up-
grading pay of city employees.
“We have been a training
ground at the police depart-
ment for years and I am glad
to see us moving to keep our
employees here. We need to
stay in the ballpark to keep
good help.”
As mayor Smith said he
would post office hours and
publish them and be on call 24
hours a day.
“I reiterate that I will run on
my strong points and not on
an opponent’s weaknesses,”
said Smith.
Smith is married to Mikey
White and they have six chil-
dren and eight grandchildren
and are active in First Baptist
Church.
~ Dialysis
Center
opens here
: BY ALAN HODGE
; of The Herald Staff
One of our body's hardest working organs
are the kidneys. Charged with the task of filter-
ing impurities from our blood, the kidneys are
something we all take for granted.
Unfortunately, not everyone has normal kid-
ney function. The kidneys are subject to mal-
functions from a variety of causes, including
bacterial infection, high blood pressure, acci-
dents, side effects of medication, and birth de-
fects. Even though our bodies can operate with
just one of its two kidneys working, too often a
person has both kidneys fail. Life without nor-
mal kidney function is measured in terms of a
few short hours.
i For many thousands of people with failed
i kidneys, their only hope of survival lies in the
i dialysis machine. Designed to act as an artifi-
cial kidney, dialysis is a process that takes place
at clinics with such machinery that patients vis-
it as many as three times
to the dialysis machine for stretches that can
last four hours, a patient's blood is cleansed in
per week. Hooked up
vag Pe eg
BY ALAN HODGE
Staff Writer
I scream, you scream, we all .
scream for ice cream. Ranking
right up there with swimming
pools, watermelons, and boat
rides, ice cream is one of sum-
mer's fondest wishes. So popular
is the frozen treat, that June has
been declared National Ice Cream
Month. To make the estimated
900 million gallons of ice cream
produced annually in the United
States, over one tenth of the na-
tion's entire milk production is
utilized. Just to show how popu-
lar ice cream is, the average
American eats nearly four gallons
of the stuff annually.
to the year 1295 when Marco Polo
brought Chinese recipes for water
ices back to Europe. During the
1600s, Eurropeans used ice, snow,
and saltpeter to freeze mixtures of
cream, fruit, and spices.
In the early 1700s, British
colonists brought ice cream
See Ice Cream, 3A
this life saving operation.
Folks in need of dialysis in the Kings
Mountain area have a new, state-of-the-art fa-
cility on Canterbury Road. Taking patients
since May, the staff at Metrolina Kidney Center
is working hard to make sure their clients get
the best in kidney care.
Currently, 25 patients are getting their dialy-
sis done at the center. Though a few of these
See Dialysis, 3A
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Heat beginning to take
ALAN HODGE/THE HERALD
Farmer Bob Ware mows a field near his home in the Oak Grove community near Kings Mountain.
How hot was it? "Too hot from a tractor seat” was Ware's opinion.
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Where did spring go? That's
the question many folks are
asking this year. With tempera-
tures pushing into the 90s al-
ready, it seems as if winter
threw off its overcoat and had
on a bathing suit underneath.
Along with prematurely high
temperatures, many areas of the
nation are experiencing one of
the worst droughts in recent
memory. The combination of
heat and drought has everyone
from farmers to office workers
swooning.
Making it official, the
National Weather Service is-
sued a statement Tuesday
declaring the Piedmont of
North Carolina a severe to
moderate drought area. The
declaration had already been
made for Western North
Carolina and the uplands of
South Carolina.
So far, 1999 in the Piedmont
had already gotten off to a dry
start with rainfall deficits rang-
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its toll
ing from three to six inches, de-
pending on location. Water de-
partments across the region are
handling the drought in differ-
ent ways depending on the
proximity of their respective
water supplies.
Charlotte, who draws its wa-
ter from Lake Norman and
Mountain Island Lake, is stick-
ing with voluntary conservation
of water for now, but may go to
mandatory conservation if the
lack of rain and heat persist.
Greensboro, which has no near-
by source, has had its citizens
under conservation of varying
degrees since last October.
So far, Kings Mountain looks
pretty good in the water supply
department.
"T've had no reports of trouble
in the water supply,” said City
of Kings Mountain planning di-
rector Steve Killian. "Moss Lake
is full for this time of year. Two
years ago it was down a foot or
so due to weather, but this year
everything is good so far."
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