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Thursday, February 2, 2006 KINGS MOUNTAII The Heral Vol. 118 No. 5 In God’s hands Double lung transplant candidate Hyder looks to faith to sustain him ELIZABETH STEWART Herald Correspondent Wayne Hyder, 50, adamantly refuses to let his life-threatening illness keep him from enjoying everyday life. “I leave my problems at the altar,” says Hyder, who is a candidate for a double lung transplant. Hyder says his faith in God will sus- tain him and his family during the dif- ficult days. Upbeat and positive, the Oak Grove community man plans to beat Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) which includes Emphysema. He asks for prayer from the commu- nity and said he is thankful for the support of his church family, David Baptist Church, and other churches and individuals who have held fundraisers and made donations to help the family with medical bills. “I never called in to work sick a day in my life until August 2004,” said Hyder, who started losing weight and feeling overly tired. His family doctor ordered chest x-rays and a pulmonary specialist sent him to Duke Hospital where he got the news that he has See Hyder, 2A Since 1889 Wayne Hyder is at Duke University Hospital this week for chest X-rays. KM comes to the aid of stem cell transplant patient 2A 50 Cents KM council puts Piedmont zoning back to residential ELIZABETH STEWART Herald Correspondent First Wesleyan Church members packed Kings Mountain city hall Tuesday night and loudly applauded city council's vote of 6-1 to reverse a former board's decision and rezone property at 605 N. Piedmont Avenue from General Business to Residential. Councilman Jerry Mullinax cast the no vote. The controversial zoning issue heated up last November when city council voted 6-1, with councilman Houston Corn voting no, to rezone Glenn Carroll's property near the church to General Business. The action came Tessneer running for coroner GARY STEWART gstewart@kingsmountainherald.co Dwight Tessneer of Kings Mountain has announced his intention to run for i Coroner of Cleveland County in the upcoming election. Filing for numerous local and state offices begins on Monday, Feb. 13 at 12 noon and clos- es on Tuesday, Feb. 28 at the Cleveland County Board of Elections. Tessneer is a former employee of Harris Funeral Home in Kings Mountain and is presently employed by Stamey Funeral Home of Fallston and Cherryville. Prior to joining Stamey Funeral Home, he was pres- ident and co-founder of Cleveland Funeral Services until 2003. Tessneer is a native of Cleveland County and is married to the former Joanne Morgan. They have four children, Dr. Roger Tessneer of Kings Mountain, Alan Tessneer of Hereford, TX, Susan Blair of Gastonia, and Betsy Tessneer of Kings Mountain. They have eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Tessneer is a member of First Baptist Church and Gideons International, which he serves as Program Assistant for the five-county Area IV, and is a former member of the Shelby Rescue Squad. Tessneer is a graduate of Boiling Springs High School and attended North Carolina State College. He is a graduate of Gupton Jones College of Mortuary Science in Atlanta, GA. Tessneer has been a funer- al director and embalmer for over 30 years. He has served as Assistant Coroner on two different occasions for a total of seven years. He currently assists Coroner Doug Tysinger, who does not intend to seek reelection. Tessneer ran for County Coroner in 1978, losing by approximately 900 votes to Bennett Masters of Kings Mountain. The coroner acts as med- ical examiner and is called to investigate deaths that are unattended or question- able. Tessneer pointed out that the coroner ’s office has had good cooperation with the See Tessneer, 5A TESSNEER on quitting anytime soon. * ELIZABETH STEWART KINGS MOUNTAIN PEOPLE fl | Bill Bridges has been cutting hair in Kings Mountain for 46 years and doesn’t plan Bill Bridges has been cutting hair for 46 years over objection of the planning and zoning board which on several occasions had denied the rezoning. Adding to the mix, council in November refused to set a second public hearing on the matter on request of church member Robert Bazzle, 901-2 Sterling Drive. Bazzle, then on behalf of the church, applied to the zoning board again for rezoning on December 13, 2005 and the zoning board and planning staff recommended the change to residential and asked city council to set public hearing on Jan. 31, 2006. Carroll then filed a protest petition, a new law which forces a legislative body to pass an ordinance with a “super majority.” That meant three-fourths of the city council voting on the issue must be in favor of the change for it to pass. Tuesday's action came after a public hearing in which Bazzle and Rev. Don Williams, First Wesleyan pastor, spoke in favor of the rezoning and attorney Doug Arthurs spoke on behalf of Carroll. The attorney noted there had been no changes in the property since the rezoning matter surfaced last September. He maintained that half of the church prop- erty is zoned for commercial use. “There is a high likelihood that a business could locate near our church which would undermine the work of the church which teaches that alcohol, tobacco and gambling destroys lives,” said Williams.. He also cited increased traf- | fic and said that if a business “goes on that corner that See Council, 6A News voting machines to be used in Grover alcohol referendum GARY STEWART gstewart@kingsmountainherald.com The April 4 beer and wine referendum in Grover will probably be the first election in which Cleveland County Board of Elections uses its new voting equipment. According to Elections Board Chairman Steve Wells of Kings Mountain, the board has ordered two machines “and it’s beginning to look like we may be able to use them down at Grover.” The Elections Board was meeting Wednesday morning to discuss the Grover referendum, new voting equipment and other items pertaining to the 2006 election year. Grover Town Council voted 3-2 at its January 9 meeting to have a referendum. Councilors Calvin Huffman, Jackie Bennett and Brent White voted for the referendum and Barry Toney and Adam Green opposed it. Although he could not vote unless the matter ended in a Herald Correspondent In its heyday the old Phenix Plant of Burlington Industries provided hundreds of jobs for Kings Mountain citizens who were customers in Bill Bridges” comfort- able barber chair across from the mill on Phenix Street. They came early for a hair cut and shave as his customers still do because Bridges, 82, gets up early to greet his morning customers with a friendly smile. They never have to make an appoint- ment. “They know I'm here and they come,” said Bridges, a Kings Mountain Relaxing between customer visits on a recent morning, Bridges said he started cutting young friends” hair when he was a young man. “It was something I liked to do,” he said, “but I didn’t start cutting hair for a living until 1960 when I went to work with Baxter Wright at Wright's Barber Shop at the corner of Gold St. and Railroad Avenue in downtown Kings Mountain.” Those were the days when a shave and haircut cost a buck and both barbers enjoyed a large clientele. Customers lined up at the front door and business was brisk until 7 p.m. closing time. See Bridges, 5A tie, Mayor Robert Sides approved of the decision stating that Grover is losing all of the revenues and profits from alcohol sales just across the South Carolina state line. Wells said Grover has 429 registered voters and he pre- dicts a turnout of from 200 to 250. “Grover will be a test site for us” in the use of the new equipment, Wells said. “We're in a transition period with the new voting machines and originally we thought we'd have to hand count the ballots.” Actually, two machines will be in use, one for the blind and visually impaired and another for other voters. The machine for the visually impaired includes a screen, hand set and a braille keyboard. Voters will use the head set to follow directions, or they can use the screen. Then, they use the braille keyboard to type in their vote. The layout of the ballot will be different from the tradi- See Grover, 6A barber for 46 years. Glen Raven razed to make room for progress ANDIE BRYMER gstewart@kingsmountainherald.co A Kings Mountain landmark is disappearing. Glen Raven Mill (formerly Park Yarn) on South Battleground Avenue, is getting the wrecker ball to make way for development. The textile mill is owned by the non-profit Consortium for Progress, Inc. The group is talking with would-be residential, industrial and strip mall developers, according to President John Henry Moss. “We've not come to any firm con- clusions what the development will be,” Moss said. Demolition should take six weeks, he said. The mill was given to the consor- tium in 1995 by Glen Raven. Remedying environmental problems delayed development, Moss said. The mill was built by the Johnston family in approximately 1910 and operated as Park Yarn, according to Jim Potter, a former general manager there. ; In 1974 it was sold to the Washington Group. Two years later Stevcoknit purchased it. That com- pany kept the mill until 1983 when it was purchased by J.P. Stevens. Six months later Glen Raven purchased and operated it until 1990. Originally, Park Yarn was a tradi- tional “cotton mill,” taking raw cot- ton and processing it into yarn. Harold Flowers of Kings Mountain worked there for a num- ber of years and also lived in the “mill village,” which consisted of about 40 homes that the mill rented to employees. Lafayette Pearson of Kings Mountain never worked at the mill, but his father Robert Lee did, and the family lived in the village. “I grew up there and left there in 1948 when I went into service,” Pearson noted. “I know they worked the hell out of them. It was hard See Glen Raven, 6A ~ JOSEPH BRYMER / HERALD Heavy equipment levels old Gien Raven Mill on S. Battleground Ave. i ¥
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