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The Kings Mountain Herald, Thursday, June 15, 2006
Paul Fulton retires from Time Warner, but
don’t think he’s going to lay his bugle down
ELIZABETH STEWART
Herald Correspondent
Music has always been a big
part of Paul G. Fulton's life.
Playing “Taps” is a service
and a love that the Vietnam-
era veteran performed so
many times that he is known
locally as the City of Kings
Mountain bugler.
Fulton has no plans to retire
from playing the trumpet,
but he retired from a 23-year
career with Time Warner
Cable Thursday. He says he
will miss his customers,
many of whom he knows on
a first name basis.
The Kings Mountain native
started playing the trumpet
as a fifth grade elementary
student and played in the
high school band until his
graduation from KMHS
in1960. He followed both his
older brothers, Bill and Oren
Fulton, in the band, all talent-
ed musicians.
While a junior in high
school, Paul joined his broth-
er, Oren, as a member of the
American Legion's Rambling
Rebels & Bugle Corps spon-
Lukjan
ELIZABETH STEWART
Herald Correspondent
Lukjan Metal Products of
Conneaut, Ohio will begin
operation in August in the
former Hayward Pool build-
ing in Kings Mountain
Industrial Park, Mayor Rick
Murphrey and Donnie
Hicks, Executive director of
the Gaston County Economic
Development Commission,
announced this week.
The manufacturer of quali-
sored by American Legion
Post 23 in Gastonia. Paul
recalled trips to national con-
ventions in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, Washington, DC,
Miami, FL and Atlanta, GA.
It was also as an 11th grad-
er that Paul joined the US
Naval Reserves. After high
school graduation he joined
Uncle Sam’s Navy and
played in the ship’s band for
two years. He joined the US
Army Reserve and was
almost reactivated in 1990 in
the Desert Storm campaign.
“I have always loved
music,” says Fulton, the baby
child in a family of nine chil-
dren of the late Palmer D.
and Emma “Spoon”
Witherspoon Fulton. His
father, the first paid Kings
Mountain fireman, came
home from World War I in
1918 and joined the Kings
Mountain Fire Department.
The senior Fulton not only
trained volunteers but was
chief radio operator who
operated the first radio com-
munications in both the fire
and police departments.
Mrs. Fulton was a former
Metal to move
ty metal duct, pipe and fit-
tings for the heating, venti-
lating and air conditioning
industry will be hiring 50
people initially and make an
investment of $3.5 million in
the community. Lukjan has
been a family owned and
operated business over: 39
years. '
“We are delighted to wel-
come Lukjan Metal to Kings
Mountain and look forward
to working with them as they
nurse
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teacher and
the family
lived at 400 E.
King Street
and also har-
vested a cot-
ton crop on
farm land
across the
road from the:
Community
Center.
Paul Fulton,
not only fol-
lowed his
father in the
Lio uw iis'e
Clemmer,
Pansy
Faditon,
Eleanor
Fulton, and
Dorothy
Faualtiton
Costner are
deceased.
P. D. Fulton,
born in 1887,
died in 1964,
four years
after Paul
Gilbreath
Fulton was
born. Paul's
military, but older siblings
followed recalled that
three of his PAUL FULTON their father
four brothers. was drafted
The late Robert DeKalb and served in the Army in
Fulton served in the US
Navy during World War II,
1941-47; James Oren Fulton
served in the US Navy 1948-
52 during the Korean
Conflict; and William Palmer
Fulton served in the US
Army during the Korean
Conflict from 1950-52.
Preston Oliver Fulton died as
a toddler and the four sisters,
become Kings Mountain
industrial citizens,” said the
mayor. He said that Lukjan
expects to employ 150 people
in the future.
Murphrey said that the
main manufacturing facility
sof Lukjan is in Conneaut,
Ohio,
70 miles east of
Cleveland, Ohio and less
than 30 miles west of Erie,
PA. He says Lukjan serves an
impressive client base in 12
states with a highly reliable
France. During WWI there
was no mechanization to
move heavy cannons onto
the battlefield. The solution
was to import mules from
Missouri to do that job. Since
Fulton was a farm boy from
the South, the troop picked
him as the mule skinner and
he took care of the mules
and hitched them to the
to KM
company operated distribu-
tion network and responsive
customer service organiza-
tion. The mayor said that
Lukjan offers the highest
quality metal pipe, duct fit-
tings on the market at com-
petitive prices and is a long-
standing member of the Air
Distribution Institute (ADI)
and participates in other
associations dedicated to the
advancement of the HVAC
industry.
STORM
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hard into the wee hours fix-
ing lines and bringing power
to hundreds of people left in
the dark.
“We started when the
storm hit around 5 o'clock
and we got everybody back
on line around 3 am,” said
Nick Hendricks with the KM
City Electric Department. He
said that although they did
not lose any of the circuits
during the initial storm,
there were tree limbs that
had fallen on power lines,
forcing them to drop some of
the circuits out to get the
branches down and make
sure that all was safe.
“Some people would have
power for a while and then
we’d have to take it down
(for repairs). They'd have
power and then lose it and
then it would come back,” he
said. “When we get used to
power it’s very frustrating
not to have it. But we appre-
ciate everyone's patience
during this mess.”
Hendricks said that all of
the problems they incurred
last night were due to fallen
tree limbs, fallen trees and
lightning. “When lightning
hits, sometimes it gets on the
lines and amps get so high
that it blows the fuses.” But
he said that for as bad as the
storm was with wind gusts
exceeding 30 mph and light-
ning, the outages were very
minimal. “Let's hope we
don’t get round 2 tonight
(June 12th),” he said. “But if
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Most of the electric prob-
lems were from the storm
but around 1:30 am, he said
that the Linwood section of
town lost power from a car
accidentally running into a
power pole. He and his crew
worked until about 4 am and
returned bright and early,
three hours later, to start the
work week.
Kings Mountain Fire
Investigator Joey Davis, said
that he did not think that
they had too many problems
from the storms. One call
they responded to was a
small transformer fire on
Hawthorne and Marion.
Something had fallen on the
transformer box, which pro-
duced a loud “pop.” A tree
fell on a house at 203 S. Sims
St. and on a vehicle at 613 W.
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the storm did not cause any
significant fires within the
city limits.
An official at the Public
Works Department said that
there were no significant
flooding or drainage prob-
lems caused by the storm,
either. According to
weatherunderground.com,
the approximate amount of
rainfall in Kings Mountain,
on Sunday, was between 0.6
inches and 1.6 inches.
Hendricks said that although
some precautions may be
taken, like trimming and
maintaining trees to lessen
the likelihood of branches
falling on power lines, there
is no sure fire way of prepar-
ing for mother nature's
wrath.
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weapon onto the battlefields.
His bride-to-be, Emma
Witherspoon, and her sister,
Ollie Mae Witherspoon, were
members of the Class of
1914-15 at Linwood College
and they married brothers: P.
D. Fulton and Jason Dexter
Fulton.
Paul Fulton came home
from the Navy and his first
job in Kings Mountain was
with Gillie Falls
Construction. He laid bricks
for new home construction
and for eight years also
taught bricklaying at Kings
Mountain High School from
1971-78 and worked at Eaton
Corporation. He got into
sales in Cable-TV in 1981,
his first experience working
with Rob Bridges at Kings
Mountain's first cable com-
pany on North City Street. In
1983 he joined Jones
Intercable at the Kings
Mountain office on City
Street which later moved to
the Kings Mountain Herald
building at Canterbury and
King Street. The Kings
Mountain office closed in
2004 and Fulton transferred
to Cable TV’s Gastonia loca-
tion.
In 2000 Paul and Muriel
Wortman were married and
they reside in Shelby. Mrs.
Fulton retired two years ago
from Washington
Elementary School after 30
years as a teacher’s assistant.
They have three children,
Angela and Tommy Shuda
and Andrew and Sarah
Fulton, all of Gastonia, and
Jason Fulton, who is sta-
tioned with the US Army in
Hawaii. They have four
grandchildren: Derrick
Shuda, Sarah and Jay Seagle
and Brittany Southard.
In retirement, Fulton plans
to continue teaching Sunday
School to residents of White
Oak Manor in Kings
Mountain, singing in the
choir of Kings Mountain's
First Baptist Church, and he
just completed training on
the North Carolina Disaster’
Relief Team. And you can bet
he will keep his horn in top
shape. His bugle won't be
silent.
BUDGET
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council members, but he said
council didn’t want to cut
jobs as some communities
have had to do due to loss of
industry and the decision
was to approve a 4 cent tax
increase.
In her budget message,
Sellers said it was important
to review a few achieve-
ments and projects complet-
ed or near completion.
+The city received a per-
fect audit.
+Vision statement and
core values were established
at city council retreat.
+Information Technology -
development of the city web
page in addition to address-
ing security, hardware, soft-
ware, and departmental
technical support.
+Began comprehensive
analysis of the Mauney
Memorial Library.
+Began Energy
Performance Contracting.
+Awarded numerous
industrial and downtown
incentive grants.
+Continued study by HDR
Engineering of the reservoir
as well as exploring the pos-
sible need for a second reser-
voir to supplement Moss
Lake.
+Debt paid off to the City
of Gastonia for the buy-out
of contract for the treatment
of wastewater, Last payment
of $675,000 made in June
2006.
+Completion of the new
substation on Margrace
Road.
+ Began process to obtain
necessary permits for dredg-
ing at Moss Lake. :
+Continued downtown
revitalization.
+Approved plans for con-
struction of new subdivi-
sions.
Rezoning request :
tabled until July
Kings Mountain Planning
& Zoning Board Tuesday
tabled until the July meeting
a rezoning request of James
Payseur who wants to build
eight single family homes in
the Crescent Hill neighbor-
hood.
Payseur and developers
Kevin Pedego and Georgina
Brustmaker asked for the
rescheduling. They want to
meet with adjoining proper-
ty owners to answer any
questions they may have on
their plans for the property
prior to the action by the
planning board and public
hearing by city council in
July.
The developers scrapped
plans for townhouses on
Payseur’s property 135 feet
from the intersection of
Joyce Street and
Meadowbrook Road due to
objections of adjoining prop-
erty owners.
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