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Thursday, April 8, 2004 Vol. 116 No. 15 Since 1889 » TE DTO AN ME 2Y OUNA day care patients 1B. 50 Cents Dead Issue Grover Council refuses to vote on Huffman’s rezoning request BY ANDIE L. BRYMER Staff Writer GROVER - No more than one house will be built on the former Minette Mills and lake property though the would-be developer Upon the advice of City Attorney Mickey Corry, Mayor Robert Sides then asked for a motion to deny the request. Councilman Max Rollins made the motion which died for" lack of a second. Councilman John Harry abstained because he owns Three men, team to be inducted into Hall of Fame may open the water to anglers. property in the effected area. By GARY STEWART Service Grover Town Council did not act Huffman is questioning whether Editor of The Herald Team both on a request by Calvin Huffman to = the board's refusal to act one way years. rezone approximately 47 acres from or the other is legal. Football, basketball and Biddix light industrial to restricted residen- Huffman said during a telephone baseball players who left was a stand- tial interview Tuesday morning he their mark on the local and out right During Monday night's meeting, plans to open the lake to fishing collegiate scenes, and one of hand pitch- no council member would make a and encourages interested individu- . JOSEPH BRYMER / HERALD Kings Mountain High's er for motion to approve the request. See Huffman, 5A Calvin Huffman listens as Grover Town best all-time high school Bethware Council discusses rezoning request. basketball teams will be High School inducted into the Kings and BIDDIX Mountain Sports Hall of American +] O U oy, I Fame at its 17th annual ban- Legion Post quet and induction ceremo- - 155. He ny Saturday, May 15 at the pitched four Patrick Center. years at Individual honorees are Wake Forest football standout Guy University Fisher, baseball pitcher and helped Bobby Biddix, and basket- lead the ball standout Ken Mitchem. Demon * The 1990 KMHS basket- Deacons to Ladder climbing Lab at home with roofers By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald Everyone who has ever owned a Labrador Retriever knows how smart the breed is. But Dragon, Lance Moss's 1 1/2 year-old Black Lab, has a unique talent that few dogs probably have... Dragon climbs up a d down ladders. Sa Moss and his father, Randy, and other employees of 07 Enterprises of Cherryville, are roofers by trade. When Lance acquired Dragon as a puppy, the crew took him with them to work every day. He’d run around the neighborhoods, look for a pond or stream to play in, or sim- ply lie around sleeping in the yard or truck. About three months ago, while roofing a home in Casar, Lance went up an aluminum extension ladder and Dragon followed him up. It was a complete surprise to Lance and the crew, because no one has ever tried to train the dog. The fact that Dragon has never stayed in his dog lot may have been a clue. She lived most of her first eight months on a farm and had wide open spaces to run around. “You put her in a lot and she climbs right out,” said Randy Moss. “We should have named her Houdini. You can’t keep her up. Saturday night, we went to a race and when we came back she was out. She’s self-trained and a really good dog.” Dragon, who never meets a stranger, sleeps in the house. “She’s no trouble at all,” says Randy. “She sleeps all night long.” . Members of the crew get a kick out of see- ing motorists stop by the side of the road when they see Dragon go up a ladder. “You'd be amazed at how many people stop or slow down,” Lance said. “It’s a won- der it hasn't caused an accident. Sometimes she’ll come up and lay on top of the house all See Dog, 3A 7-vear-old Destiny battling leukemia BY ANDIE L. BRYMER Staff Writer Destiny Wilson is only seven years old but she has already fought a bigger bat- tle than many adults will ever encounter. She is facing off against leukemia and winning. Destiny was diagnosed last April after three months followed. After one round at Gaston Memorial, Destiny and her mother Jeanetta Wilson returned home to receive a phone call that night from the doctor. She wanted Destiny to return the next morning. Jeanetta Wilson knew something was wrong. She could not sleep and called GARY STEWART / HERALD Lance Moss watches as his dog, Dragon, climbs ladder to the top of Bobby and Barbara Bridges’ home in Kings Mountain. ball team, which won the Western N.C. championship and played for the State 3A title in Chapel Hill, will also be honored. In addition, special recog- nition will be given to two men who have spent most of their lives promoting sports in Kings Mountain, John Dilling and Bill Grissom. Dilling has been involved in duckpin bowling on the local, state and national scene for almost 50 years, and is a member of the National Duckpin Bowling Hall of Fame. Grissom was a coach in the local youth leagues for many years, and for the past 36 years has vol- unteered his time to film Kings Mountain High foot- ball games. Special achievement awards will go to the KMHS men’s basketball team, which this year became the first KMHS basketball team to win three straight confer- ence championships, and KMHS swimmer Michael Allen who won the state championship in the 500 freestyle. Tickets for the meal and ceremony are $10 each and may be obtained from any member of the Hall of Fame committee. Guy Fisher was a KMHS football standout from 1949- 51 and later was an All- Conference defensive end that helped Lenoir-Rhyne College win four consecu- tive North State Conference championships. He also played two years in the U.S. Army, making the All- Hall. - was the first two Atlantic MITCHEM Coast Conference champi- onships. Mitchem African- American basketball player at Kings iViousiain FISHER High : School. As a freshman in 1965-66, he led the Mountaineers in scoring. During his sophomore and junior seasons he teamed ‘with George Adams and others to lead the Mountaineers to back-to- back conference champi- onships and a 45-2 overall record. He played four years at Pan American University in Texas and was an All- American slowpitch softball player for the McAdenville Pharr Yarns Reds. The 1990 basketball team, coached by Larry Sipe, won the Southwestern Conference and Western Regionals championships and lost to D.H. Conley in the state championship game. The Mountaineers compiled a 26-3 overall record. Members of the team were Kevin Moss, Shane Sessoms, Daniel Honeycutt, Tony Currance, Darius Ross, Rodgerick McClain, Scottie Hopper, Alan Williams, Marquiz Williamson, Era Vaughn, Darian Hager, Quan Smith, Marcus Byers, Ryan Hollifield and Pedro McNeil. KM reimbursed $1,600 it gave for stolen wallet BY ANDIE L. BRYMER Staff Writer A Kings Mountain Police Department reserve officer has reimbursed the city $1,600 after that money was initially used to reimburse him for a theft which occurred at the department. , Roger Goforth wrote a check to the city Thursday afternoon during a press conference at Kings Mountain City The money was taken in March when Goforth was at the department com- pleting annual paperwork, Police Chief Melvin Proctor said. Goforth had taken information from his wallet and appar- ently left it unattended. Proctor said he reimbursed Goforth with the permission of Interim City Manager Gary Hicks and City Attorney See Wallet, 2A of doctor visits. Leg pains her mother that night. and insomnia led Destiny's “I'm thinking it’s got to be physician to first believe she something serious,” she was anemic. After she said. stopped eating, ran high As soon as the om Gthet Roger Goforth writes a $1,600 check reim- fevers and experienced and daughter arrived at the bursing the City of Kings Mountain for in oney extreme irritability and physician's office, they were cin pieced him after his wallet was stolen at night sweats, more testing See Destiny, 3A the Kings Mountain Police Department. ANDIE BRYMER / HERALD DESTINY WILSON
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