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Get ready to buckle up in the back seat 4a Thursday, July 13, 2006 KM softball team wins tourney 6a KMHS, West School honor rolls 1B KINGS MOUNTAIN Vol. 118 No. 28 Since 1889 : Inside.. Dr . Sincox # retired but still seeing patients 50 Cents 2D 4A HOMEFRONT KM man shot in Shelby, Grover man is charged The Shelby Police Department has arrested Kevin Lamar Lockhart, 21, of 550 Kilgore Drive, Grover, for the July 8 early morning Earl/ Walnut Street shooting of Perry Lamont Ussery, 24, of 210 Thornburg Drive in Kings Mountain. Ussery was treated and released from Cleveland Regional Medical Center for injuries sustained in the shooting. Lockhart was arrested at 212 Ramblewood Drive in Shelby at 11:42 pm on July 9. He was charged with assault With a deadly weapon with intent to kill, shooting into an occupied property, and possession of a firearm by a felon. He was placed in the Cleveland County Law Enforcement Center under a $35,500 bond. Shelby Police are also seeking two other individuals believed to be involved in the incident. Warrants for assault with a dead- ly weapon with intent to kill and shooting into occupied property have been obtained by Shelby detectives for Santonia Lanquet Brooks, 19, of 309 N. Washington Street and Devosia Oneil Chapman, 16, of 410 Clegg Street in Shelby. Anyone with information about this case should call the Shelby Police Department at 704- 484-6845 or CrimeStoppers at 704-481-TIPS (8477). RADAR WATCH Kings Mountain Police will be running radar at the following locations the week of July 16-22. Sunday - Shelby Rd. Monday - NC 161. Tuesday - Fulton Dr. Wednesday - Sims St. Thursday - NC 216. Friday - Kings Mountain Blvd. Saturday - Margrace Rd. *Note - Police run radar every day on I-85 and US 74 Bypass. DEATHS Vada Abernathy, 88 Kay Bowen, 65 Ross Campbell, 51 Ray Carroll Cline, 74 Thaniel Pennington, 79 CHAFMAN Mary McSwain, 90 Virginia Lee Bridges, 87 Johnny Earnhardt, 95 Pages 3A, 4A EER Classified 3B Education 1B Lifestyles 2B Deaths 3A, 4A Sports 6A Worship 5A This week’s advertising sections: Food Lion CVS/Pharmacy Kings Mountain Chevrolet To advertise or subscribe call 704-739-7496 To advertise or subscribe call The Herald at 704-739-7496 © $250,000 in - —— WAITING FOR DADDY—— GARY STEWART / HERALD 10-month-old Brayden Deaton of Kings Mountain is ready for her father, Brad, to come home from Iraq. Brad’s scheduled return date is in September. Brayden is the daughter of Brad and Ashley Deaton. Grandparents are Julie Deaton, Darrell and Crystal Love, and Shane and Tara Absher. Great grandparents are Olin and Mary Love, Martha Yarbro, Shirley Cobb and Treva Mullinax. Harris to renovate old KM Drug Store ELIZABETH STEWART Herald Correspondent Downtown revitalization is get- ting a shot in the arm from John O. (Johnny) Harris III, Kings Mountain developer, whose vision for rehabilitation of al890s drug store could lead to major restoration in changing the face of Main Street Kings Mountain. Harris, president of John O. Harris Interests, is investing refurbishing the old Rexall Drug Store and shooting for a September 1 completion date. In nearby Bessemer City he has Kings Mountain. invested $750,000 in the construction near- ing completion of a medical build- ing bringing the total in Harris investments in the area to over $1 million inland and construction costs. + Harris said, “I'm very much interested in the revitalization of downtown and I have a lot of respect for the many area folks who are moving in that direction and hope our investment will send a louder message to other investors to market Kings Mountain.” “A loft look” is how Harris describes the dressed up former drug store building “3A which will focus on restora- tion on two il floors. | The ¥ down- stairs area with its 2,650 square feet of floor space will be perfect for a coffee shop, JOSEPH BRYMER / HERALD Hallmark Johnny Harris looks over plans to renovate the Store, old Kings Mountain Drug building in downtown pharmacy or other business- es and the second floor, with its 1,050 square feet of floor space, will be utilized for office space by the Harris investment group. Recessed lighting, exposed brick, sprayed-in insulation, wooed floors upstairs and plaster brick and See Harris, 4A beginning New kidney replaces only one Clayton Ollis ever had EMILY WEAVER eweaver@kingsmountainherald.com Clayton Ollis, a resident of Kings Mountain, came into the world 41 years ago with one kidney, a condition known as renal agenesis. Many people who have a solitary kidney lead nor- mal, healthy lives and are able to com- pete in sports and other activities just as a person would that has two kid- neys. But what would happen if that one kidney decided to fail and there was no second one to back it up? He suffered from many kidney stones as a child, and remembers hav- ing one at least once a year until he was about six or seven. Back in the 70s, doc- tors still believed the only way to treat the stones was to cut them out. So he underwent many surgeries, which left many scars, weakening his one kidney. “I distinctly remember going to my first day of kindergarten and knowing I was going into the hospital the very next day to have a kidney stone removed,” he said, which did not both- er him having been such a regular to the Ohio hospitals at that age. - “When we moved down here in ‘77, 1 didn’t have any more kidney stones until I moved to Kansas City in 1996 . and then I got another (one). When “| distinctly remember going to my first day of kindergarten and knowing | was going into the hospital the very next day to have a kidney stone removed.” they cut it out, it was only three or four See Ollis, 6A Clayton Ollis WELCOME TO GARY STEWART / HERALD City activities director Ellis Noell and Mary Ann Hendricks, left, and Mayor Rick and Sandra Murphrey, right, stand at city limits sign now featuring Keep KM Beautiful sign on Highway 161 north. Banners promote ELIZABETH STEWART Herald Correspondent The 50 plus colorful banners that mark downtown street corners and entrances to the city have been designed to promote Keep Kings Mountain Beautiful and also to market local businesses. Sandra Murphrey and Mary Ann Hendricks, co-chair of the project, and Mayor Rick Murphrey, assisted by Public Works Supt. Jackie Barnette, put up the welcome signs at the Keep KM Beautiful entrances of the city Tuesday. The mayor said that the Keep Kings Mountain Beautiful com- mittee is working with CGI Communications Inc. in the design of the banners and local merchants have purchased adver- tising logo for each of the banners to help support the project. Other merchants interested in a banner to advertise their business may call toll-free 1-800-398-3029 exten- sion 249 and speak with the com- pany representative. See Signs, 2A TREE — = a CM
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