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Thursday, August 22, 2002 Vol. 114 No. 34 Since 1889 4 - {a ~ no me ° SR A OR & Ro, B PON aay Pe (AY SK oe 22° JING Up Pon sini Ww 1 back yard RANA AERA [+7 260 SS : : FON 9 W® 1B G +s Cents RESCUE REHEARSAL the depot. Mock disaster helps prepare for real thing By BEN LEDBETTER Staff Writer A train carrying a hazardous chemi- Ethylene oxide is produced in large quantities, according to the Occupational Safety and Health : ; BEN LEDBETTER / THE HERALD Kings Mountain Rescue Squad members and firefighters place a victim on a stretcher at Saturday’s hex at nausea, vomiting and cyanosis - which causes the skin to turn blue. That was the scene the Kings By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald Kings Mountain and Cleveland County got some good news last week. Over a three-day period - Wednesday through Friday - up to five inches of rain fell in some parts of the county and 2 1/4 inches at the Moss Lake water treatment plant. That raised the lake level of Moss Lake by one-fourth of an inch, according to Kings Mountain Water Director Walt Ollis, and Shelby, which had been pur- chasing over two million gallons of water a day from Kings Mountain to ease its water crisis, came complete- ly off the KM system because its main water source, the Broad River, was running again. But with rain not in the forecast over the next sever- Rain helps but drought still critical “If you've been praying for rain say ‘thank you, Lord,’ but don’t quit.” Walt Ollis KM Water Director Mountain Mayor Rick Murphrey. “The long-term . solution is not there until we get a sustained rain over several days that would really make a difference.” Ollis adds, “if you've been praying for rain say ‘thank you, Lord” but don’t quit.” Although the rain helped get Shelby off the KM water system for a few days, Ollis said it didn’t significantly Administration web site. It is used in the production of several industrial chemicals, used in certain agricultural products and used in sterilizing med- ical equipment. Acute exposure to the gas could Mountain Rescue Squad worked with during a mock disaster Saturday. Six people, who laid in front of the trains, were hurt. Kings Mountain Rescue, which was the first agency notified, called Grover Rescue when it al days, the bad news is that change the level of Moss the drought that has devas- lake. tated this area of North “Half of that quarter of an Carolina will continue. inch of water level was gone “The thunderstorms we the next day,” Ollis said, cal hits a church bus near the old depot on Piedmont Avenue. The chemical could have caused extensive damage and several emergency agencies from the county were called. hs yal! _ ethelyne oxide. The chemical that was leaking was By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald After a two-hour standoff with a mental patient threatening suicide, Cleveland County Sheriff's SERT (Sheriff's Emergency Response Team) stormed into the bedroom of a small mobile home off Cansler Street in Kings Mountain Monday afternoon and took the man into custody. The 24-year-old man, who had just been released from a mental institution last Wednesday, was involuntarily committed to Broughton Hospital. He was not charged. According to Chief Deputy Paul Cash, Cleveland County Communication Center received a 911 call about 9:30 a.m. from a woman who said her son was threatening to commit suicide with a knife. Cash said Sheriff's Office negotiators talked to the man for about two hours, but without success. Cash said officers began to worry that he might be planning to do something around noon when he opened the back door to the result in respiratory irritation and lung injury, shortness of breath, headache, County SERT team stops man threatening suicide mobile home. : “An officer spotted him and yelled ‘he’s at the back door’ and I guess he saw the offi- cer and went back in the house,” Cash said. The man reportedly then locked himself in a bedroom near the back door. Officers went through the back door, kicked in the he bedroom door and threw a “Flash Bang” into the room. A Flash Bang, Cash explained, looks simi- lar to a hand grenade and explodes, making a loud noise without doing any damage to the person or home. “But it does deafen you for two or three seconds and you can’t move,” he explained. “The deputies went in right behind it and he never knew what happened. They pinned him down, and rolled him over and handcuffed him.” Deputies confiscated a knife taped to a 2” x 4” piece of wood. The man did not pull the knife out of the wood, he said. No one was injured, Cash said. Cash said the man’s mother indicated that See SERT, 3A arrived on the scene:to help with the See Rescue, 3A. received last week are just temporary fixes,” said Kings GARY STEWART / HERALD ~ Cleveland County deputies try to talk man out of mobile home off Cansler Street. Fed up with KM, man takes down barn Putnam’s barn coming down piece by piece GARY STEWART / HERALD By BEN LEDBETTER Staff Writer A question over zoning jurisdic- tion has caused a barn to be demolished. The barn, which was built by Dennis Putnam, was next to Ebenezer Baptist Church and is now being torn down after the city of Kings Mountain said that it vio- lated its zoning. . The area is in the city’s two mile extra territorial jurisdiction (ET]J.) Concern over the barn was first brought by a church official at a Planning and Zoning Board meet- in alvin C. Miller, an associate pastor said he went to the city and complain when he saw the barn being built. Miller said another reason for going to the city was it would not let him put trailers on his land. Miller said the horses are gone and the barn is being torn down piece by piece. : The issue of jurisdiction sur- faced since Putnam was initially issued a Cleveland County build- ing permit. : The county permit was revoked since the area was in Kings Mountain's jurisdiction and Putnam requested the city rezone his land from R-10 to R-20. An R-20 classification would allow the barn and horses to stay. Kings Mountain City Council denied the rezoning request at its May meeting. During the meeting neighbors, Ebenezer Church representatives and people who helped with the barn aired their views which ranged from opposition to the See Barn, 3A “meaning it didn’t rain over . See Rain, 3A burns, no one hurt By BEN LEDBETTER Staff Writer Thanks to one bus driver, eight Davidson School stu- dents were taken off a bus after it caught fire Monday on Yarboro Road. According to Cleveland County Assistant Fire Marshal Perry Davis, a rup- tured fuel line in the engine spread to the interior of the bus. Davidson Principal Bob Grigg said he received a call from bus driver Keith Parks around 2:20 p.m. According to Grigg, he had already dropped off his first student and noticed smoke coming from the floorboards. That's when Parks decid- ed to take action. “He stopped the bus on the side of the road,” Grigg said about Parks. “They walked up a hill to a yard. So they were safe.” About five minutes later, Grigg said Parks called to say the bus was on fire. He later called for a fire depart- ment. Grigg said he started to take the students home as a substitute bus came. * Despite the fire, they were only 15 to 20 minutes late going home. “We're just thankful nobody got hurt,” Grigg said. Cleveland County Schools Transportation Director Don Byrnes said the bus is a total loss and ‘incidents similar to Monday's are rare. See Bus, 3A Bessemer City 225 Gastonia Hwy. 704-629-3906 Gastonia +i Shelby 529 New Hope Road 106 S Lafayette St. 704-865-1233 704-484-6200 Kings Mountain 300 W. Mountain St. 704-739-4782 | FIRST NATIONAL BANK 9e GC. Celetrating 128 Years YOUR CLI EAL BANK
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