Thursday, April 8, 2004
Vol. 116 No. 15
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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