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ci at — March 14, 2002 er tl ear pts ier RU The Kings Mountain Herald Page 5A SPEEDING rims YMCA ALAN GAS FAME From 1A From 1A From 1A From 1A Sgt. David Allen of the Cleveland County office of the NC Highway Patrol said his officers issued 139 speeding citations on I-85 during the month of January. Both Allen and Kings Mountain Police Chief Melvin Proctor see the effort paying off. “It’s hard to measure if it’s cut down on speeding because of the volume of traffic on I- 85,” Allen said, “but we have seen a decrease in accidents and that’s how we judge it.” Allen said he has one full- time trooper assigned almost exclusively to the Kings Mountain area of I-85. He may be pulled off on occasion if there is an accident nearby that he can respond to quicker than a trooper assigned to another part of the county. Allen said he also has troop- ers assigned to Highway 74, which also has a 65 miles per hour speed limit including a portion in the Kings Mountain city limits. “Our guys pretty much stay on the major arteries,” Allen said. “You'll find across the state that the vast majority of wrecks are speed related, fol- lowed by alcohol use. That's why those are two key factors to our enforcement program. That's what's causing wrecks in North Carolina and here in Cleveland County.” Chief Proctor said he also sees a decrease in accidents in the areas that have been target- ed. “We've been working during the peak periods of speeding,” Proctor said. “Most of the wrecks that we work on 1-85 are speed related. We're trying speed-related accidents.” Officer Burnette said the effort has paid off locally. “The word has gotten around that we're down here,” he said, “so most of our tickets now are to people from out of town.” Burnette recalled issuing over 50 tickets on I-85 during a sin- gle weekend. Some speeders have been clocked on radar going in excess of 100 miles per hour, he said. “Our jurisdiction runs from the Gaston County line to the rest area,” Proctor explained. “We had been seeing a lot of speeding on 74 Bypass and we worked it steady and it’s slowed it down. We can see it helping a little on 85. A lot of out-of-state speeders are com- ing through here.” Burnette and Proctor said the peak time for speeding appears to be early morning and late afternoon. “We have issued some cita- tions to persons who had been caught previously,” the chief noted. “We have cases where several cars are following in a row. We had one incident . where a man and his wife were traveling in separate cars. He had been caught before and his wife was following him. He had told her to be sure and slow down when they came into Kings Mountain. He slowed down, and she came around him and got caught.” The cost of the tickets is not the only result of being caught for speeding. Convictions of speeding for more than 16 miles over the speed limit could result in a loss of driver’s license, and each speeding con- victions carries points against license that can result in high insurance rates. GATEWAY Erin Broadbent said the parks have been doing a lot of the same work. “We began to realize we're all doing the same thing,” she said. Broadbent said Kings Mountain State Park and the national park are already on-:/ nected. Kings Mountain State Park also joins Crowders Mountain State Park. Kings Mountain State Park official Frank Couch said he attended a series of meetings when he first started at the park about connecting the parks. But nothing was done. That was then. “It’s really been a real treat to see all of this take place,” he said. The Gateway Project could also help Kings Mountain with its downtown revitalization, and the city is trying to get its downtown business district on the National Register of Historic Places. Other public and private environmental groups from North and South Carolina were at the meeting. And while specific projects were discussed, broader themes were also brought up. SCHOOL BOARD TO MEET Kings Mountain Board of Education will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Central School. “If we don’t take the time now to secure the open space, it will be gone,” Dwayne Stutzman, with the NC Division of Parks and Recreation said. Speaking in a tongue-in-cheek manner, he said Clay County, in the moun- tains, could be something simi- lar to a subway stop for Atlanta. “1 seeideyelopment of... Greenways (as) one of the best things you can do,” he said. ~~ The next Gateway Connector meeting is May 16 at Crowders Mountain. days 35 ship with the YMCA helps “improve the city’s quality of life. : “I'm just really proud of that partnership,” he said. “I think it brings a lot more recreation to our citizens for less cost.” Currently, the YMCA oper- ates on approximately $750,000 annually, which includes city funds. It has also increased the amount of recreation opportu- nities in Kings Mountain since it took ‘over the city’s recreation in 1998. And while a new project was announced Tuesday, a relatively new city department discussed its past financial year. This will be the third year the city has funded a position for special events and public rela- tions. It was started during Murphrey’s first term, and is directed by Ellis Noell. Murphrey said he wanted to look at providing more special events and started talking to the community. But while the events cost money to put on, he said the city tries to partner with local businesses to help cut costs. “It’s always good to partner- ship up. It definitely helps monetarily with these events,” Murphrey said. Some of the events which Noell’s office has worked on includes Beach Blast, Summer Nites Concert Series, Spring It Up Jazz Festival, and the Over The Mountain Triathlon. As far as the city's public relations, Noell said Tuesday that he has coordinated 275 newspaper articles with papers that regularly cover Kings Mountain, including 66 front page positions. He also said he has worked with local televi- sfon and radio stations. Kings Mountain is one of the few government bodies in the area that funds a special events or public relations person. Cleveland County cut its . Public Information Officer posi- tion in 1999 and allocated those funds toward hiring a certified public accountant for the finance department, County Manager Lane Alexander said. Department heads field media,inquiries for the county. In. other-business: + ii + i eo; Cemetery Director/Dorus’ Bennett mentioned the need for expansion of Mountain Rest Fcemetery and improvements for ..the office. GARY From 4A be 35 x 18 feet and 12 feet deep. It was to be used as a safeguard against accident from fire. Social items mentioned that Dr. Dixon, Wright and Ben Dixon, Ed and Swift Boykin, Tom and Sam Cansler, and Bob Durham, attended by Jim Able, “our old devil,” were off to the Catawba River on a fishing tour. Church news noted that Messrs. Tom Fulton, Theo. Ware, Tom Cansler, Sam Cansler, “Noon” Roberts, Charlie Russell, “Dock” Cornwell, Robert Mcallister, Nevitte Kendrick and Creed Roberts went to Shelby to hear Rev. A.C. Dixon preach. The Reformer’s position statement was particularly Coming soon, something new just for [] ‘interesting and would be still appropriate today. It read: “We believe in unity of action that our city property may be preserved, her various indus- tries fostered, and her general advances assured. We advocate a continuance of the fair and impartial enforcement of our ordinances in the thorough improvement of our streets and sidewalks, in the cleaning up and keeping of our cemetery, in the economical administration of our financial affairs, and if possible to be done, in a reduc- tion of our taxes. “The Reformer has always endeavored to push our interest on the above general principles and will continue to do so. |When the citizens of a town agree and pull together for the upbuilding of their city she rises as if by magic. In unison there is strength.” From 4A bulging out, your tongue is plumb out on the stem, and tears are streaming down your crimson red face. This can go on for hours. Cough medicine does but little good. Indeed, the cough seems to thrive on such elixir. Last but not least in discom- . forts brought on by the flu has been the cold sweats. Both Saturday and Sunday nights I went to bed swaddled in sweat pants and sweat shirt. How appropriately those articles of cloth are named. Around 2 o'clock each morning I awoke completely drenched in icy clod clammy perspiration. My clothes were soaked to the skin. I was sure I was dying. The flu is nothing to fool with. More people died worldwide form the great flu epidemic in 1916 than did in World War I. It can still kill you today. The one lesson I learned form this episode is that next year I will have a flu shot. Don't be stupid and miss out on your chance to get one too. In this case for sure, an ounce of prevention is worth a metric ton of cure. BEN From 4A about North Carolina cities bending over backwards for the old ABA Carolina Cougars. And they didn’t even have a perma- nent homie - they played in three cities. 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AAA's Fuel Gauge Report is derived from credit card trans- actions at over 60,000 stations around the country. Prices in the report are the combined - average are the last card swipe of the previous day, with the exception of Saturday and Sunday. At Parker’s Amoco on Shelby Road, motorists on Tuesday were filling up despite the rain. Danny Bryant said he’s noticed prices have started to go up fast. Bill Parker, who runs the sta- tion, said he notices an increase annually. He said the increase at his station usually comes around the spring and brings a 10 to 12 cents increase. But while prices have increased, Parker said business- es has kept a normal pace. “We haven't slowed up any,” he said. Blalock went on to make Junior College All-American at Spartanburg Methodist, and he was Honorable Mention All- American at Tennessee Tech. He played Service ball and one year of pro basketball in Europe. He has held head bas- ketball coaching positions at Hunter Huss, where he coached UNC's Kris Lang, and is presently at Highland Tech, which he also serves as athletic director. Stephens, who now lives in Mount Holly, was a two-way All-Conference lineman at KMHS in 1984 and ‘85. In ‘85 he led the Mountaineers to their first State playoff season since 1964 and blocked a poten- tial game-winning field goal attempt to preserve a 14-13 first round playoff win at Canton Pisgah. He started on offense in the Shrine Bowl game in Charlotte - the first KM player selected for the game since 1957. Stephens went on to start for four years at offensive guard at the University of South Carolina, where he made All- American his junior and senior seasons. He played in two bowl games with the Gamecocks and also played in the Blue-Gray and Senior Bowl all-star games. He played three seasons for the New England Patriots in the - NFL. 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