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Thursday, May 9, 2002 KINGS MOUNTAIN The Hera! Vol. 114 No. 19 Since 1889 : > anties win SWFH soccer title 6A 50 Cents CANCER AWARENESS | By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald The 47-year-old Kings Mountain man has worked at least 40 hours a week since he was a teenager. + one day and went to a local doctor, who feared he had liver cancer. He was sent to the hospital where a tumor the size of a baseball was found. After the tumor was shrunk, he underwent surgery at Duke University Medical Center and had Don Phifer is the picture of health. “| ‘But two years ago he became sick in mer By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald A decision on whether or not Kings Mountain's tem- porary injunction against the Department of Justice acting on preclearance of the Cleveland County school merger would become a permanent injunction had not been decided at The Herald press deadline Wednesday. The Attorney General's office responded to the Don Phifer feels good enough to work every day, but it’s vital that he receive a liver transplant to overcome can- Phifer hopes liver transplant will help him overcome cancer two-thirds of his liver removed. He has had sur- gery on two other occasions since to lucky. “I’ve been real Kings Mountain request late last week, and the Court of Appeals will now decide if the injunction will stand until that Court’s 3-judge panel has a chance to rule on the legality of the approval by the State Board of Education. Also late last week, Cleveland County Judge Timothy Patti signed an injunction preventing the merger from taking place until the Court of Appeals makes its decision, even if the Justice Department pre- clears it under the 1965 GARY STEWART / HERALD I’ve worked burn off the tumor Noses igh Be because it is locat- 7) eanwhile, Kings ed too close to his’ every day.” cope <Mountain Schools bile duct. In Superintendent Larry Allen February of this year, he was told he needed a liver -Don Phifer said their attorney, Brian Shaw of Raleigh, is sending additional information to transplant. Before he can get on the transplant list, though, he must raise approxi- mately $150,000 for uninsured costs relating to the transplant, including a $50,000 deposit. the Justice Department that he hopes will bolster Kings Mountain's claim that the 185 students who live in the See Phifer, 3A Still no word on injunction Cr CASC Gaston County area of Kings Mountain city limits are legally a part of Kings Mountain District Schools. Allen said several months ago the Gaston County Board of Education wrote Gaston County residents who live inside the KM city - limits and told them they \ would not be eligible to vote in the Gaston County School Bond referendum “because they are a part of the Kings Mountain School System.” Also, Allen said, the DOJ has been notified that Mike Smith, a Gaston County res- ident, was duly elected in November to an at-large “seat on the Kings Mountain Board of Education. “We thought it was an interesting twist and new ‘ information that our attor- neys could use,” Dr. Allen said. “Once again, another government agency recog- nizes that the Gaston County folks are in the Kings Mountain School District, “Going back to years ago to when this first started, the Attorney General's Office directed the State Controller at that time that those students were Kings Mountain students, and they directed the Gaston County Commissioners to fund those students to Kings Mountain at the same See Merger, 5A McDaniel hopes to get youth involved in Relay By BEN LEDBETTER for Life Youth Summit in Dallas, Queen wants permit for poker machines Staff Writer Sloane McDaniel, a member of + Central United Methodist Church, has been leading her church’s youth group team in the Joseph R. Smith Relay for Life. This year’s event will be held June 7-8 at the Cleveland Ave. Walking Track. In March, she had an opportu- nity to share ideas with other youth around the country when she attended the National Relay Texas. more youth involved in the relay,” she said. “They gave us a lot of ideas.” involved in relays in their own community attended the March event. regional Relay for Life meeting in October. “We learned about how to get About 300 other youth McDaniel also attended a See Relay, 5A Sloane McDaniel recently attended Relay for Life Youth Summit in Texas. Board of Adjustments heard three requests during its Thursday meeting at City Hall and continued one case involving video poker. J.R. Queen had filed a request for a conditional use permit for a business he’d like to open at 101 S. Battleground Ave. One of the things Queen would like to have in his KINGS MOUNTAIN PEOPLE Flying ammo into Vietnam experience for Don Adams By BEN LEDBETTER Staff Writer Don Adams has been around the world. During his 22 years of serv- ice in the U.S. Air Force he has been to Vietnam, Europe and all points between. He joined the military in 1953 because he wanted to do something besides work in textiles. “I just decided it was the thing for me to do because there were no jobs in 1953,” he said. “The only jobs were primarily i in the textile busi- ness.’ DON ADAMS A native of Bessemer City, Adams spent his first four and a half years in the mili- tary in a post he didn’t like and eventually came home for a week with plans to reen- list. In 1967, his first war § involvement was in Israel during a conflict in the Middle East. Even then Americans were told to be careful, Adams said. But conflicts in the middle east were not the only wars occurring. See Adams, 5A FIRST NATIONAL BANK Kings Mountain Celebrating 128 Years 300 W. Mountain St. 704-739-4782 By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald ,Judy Ford has done a little bit of every- thing at West School. And she’s done it well. Kings Mountain's 2002-03 Teacher of the Year began her education career as a bus driver and assistant to four teachers in the fourth and fifth grade. She realized very quickly that she wanted her own classroom, so she went back to school at night at Limestone College in Gaffney, SC to complete her degree zequire ments. After two years as a teacher assistant, the school’s secretary job came open and she See Ford, 3A Russ. | Shelby 106 S. Lafayette St. 704-484-6200 Gastonia 529 New Hope Road 704-865-1233 By BEN LEDBETTER establishments is six poker Staff Writer machines, but according to gr board members Thursday, The Kings Mountain he did not have all required documentation. The board requested Queen bring a Rutherford County tax listing, proof of the machines being in law- ful operation in 2000 and a registration form from Rutherford County also stat- ing the machines were in lawful operation. See Poker, 3A TEACHER OF THE YEAR Judy Ford has done almost everything at West School Judy Ford, left, accepts KMDS Teacher of Year Award from last year’s winner, Donna Bessemer City 1225 Gastonia Hwy. 704-629-3906 Member FDIC ~
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