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Kings Mountain schools open Friday (See Section B) Thursday, August 24, 2006 . Kings Mountain seeing tremendous residential growth KINGS Vol. 118 No. 34 2A MOUNTAIN raid Since 1889 50 Cents VDE ati Vee wi ah 0 Of ec OY Inside... High School football special section inside today’s Herald Two men sought in armed robbery at Petro Express Kings Mountain police are seeking the identity of two men who robbed the Petro Express on Cleveland Avenue shortly after midnight on August 21. The suspects reportedly entered the store and showed a shotgun and demanded money from the register. The suspects then exited the store on foot in an unknown direction. An undisclosed amount of money was taken. The store clerks were not injured. One suspect is described as a black male approximately 55” tall. He was wearing a dark shirt and off-white or tan shorts, black shoes and a black or dark colored mask. The other suspect is described as a black male 57” to 59” tall. He was wearing a gray shirt, light colored blue jeans, black shoes and a black or dark colored mask. Anyone with information should contact the Kings Mountain Police Department at 7i04-734-0444. Herald still needs pictures The Herald is in need of old photographs for inclusion in its upcoming special section “A Place Called Home.” The section which is expected to be one of the best ever printed by the paper will hit the streets this fall. The photos are needed by September 1. We are especially interested in pictures showing places, people and events in Kings Mountain from the Revolutionary War period until the present time. The older the picture the better! Pictures may be - but are not limited to - buildings and streets around town, old homes, church- es, schools and school groups, parades, textile mills, country stores, and interesting people of the community, past and present. Bring the pictures to The Herald at 824-1 East King Street, mail them to The Editor, P.O. Box 769, Kings Mountain, NC 28086, or Email them to gstewart@kingsmountainher- ald.com. Pictures will be scanned as they are brought in and prompt- ly returned to the owner. DEATHS Margaret Ratterree, 83 John Huckabee, 57 " Melissa Smith, 31 Daniel Webster, 75 Mary Mcintyre, 85 Juanita Carroll, 62 Page 3A Co INDEX Classified 3C Deaths 3A Opinion 4A Lifestyles 6A Police 3A Sports. 1C Worship 7A Business 3C This week’s advertising sections: Food Lion CVS/Pharmacy Pizza Hut To advertise or subscribe call 704-739-7496 Mother family h in car wreck GARY STEWART gstewart@kingsmountainherald.co A Grover woman watched in horror as one of her neighbors was killed and five members of her family were injured in a wreck Thursday morning on Highway 29 near Grover. The GMC Envoy that Melissa Smith of Grover was driving in the north- bound lane near Battleground Road had just passed Cassi Sutton when a vehicle came out of the parking lot of Military Park Quick Stop to cross Highway 29 onto Battleground Road, and hit the Envoy. ! “It happened so fast the only thing I could think was oh, my God,” said Sutton. “It was so scary to me, because we live in the same neighborhood and were leaving our neighborhood togeth- er.” Melissa Smith, 31, died from her injuries. Her husband, Antywan (A.].), and their four children were injured. Their two-year-old daughter was airlift- ed to a Charlotte hospital with serious injuries. According to Sutton, she was on her way to a dental appointment in Kings Mountain when the wreck occurred shortly after 11:35. She said she knew it was the Smiths in the van because they had to wait on her to leave her driveway in Spring Acres. “They passed me right in front of AGI, and then I saw the car pulling out and it wasn't stopping and I thought ‘stop car, stop.” I saw them hit and the Envoy just started flipping.” Sutton said she was “less than a car See Wreck, 5A “it happened so fast the only thing | could think was Oh, My God." Cassi Sutton ; GARY STEWART / HERALD Rescue personnel wri the scene of a deadly traffic accident Thursday on Highway 29 at Battleground Road near Grover. Four of the six occupants of an Envoy SUV were thrown from the vehi- cle. One died and the others were injured. Others hurt in wrecks near KM EMILY WEAVER. ; eweaver@kingsmourftainherald.com Dixie Michelle Galloway, 19, of Kings Mountain, crossed the center line, hit an embankment and flipped her car on Stony Point Road Sunday morning, around 2 am. Monday after- LaKia Cooper pumps gas into her grandmother’s car Tuesday morning at Mike's gas station across from the Depot. EMILY WEAVER / HERALD Gas was selling for as little as $2.68.9 per Mountain and $2.59.9 just over the South Carolina line in Grover yes- terday. But, the slight drop in fuel prices throughout the nation as a whole, is due to more supply and less demand, said Spokesman Tom Crosby for AAA Carolinas out of Charlotte. The nationwide average price per gal- lon, according to www.fuelgaugere- port.com, has decreased by about 7 cents in the past month. The nation- al current average for regular unleaded fuel sits at $2.923, when a month ago the average was at noon, two other cars, driven by Sandra Bean and Karen Tipton, were totaled at the intersection of Goforth and Ebenezer Roads. All three drivers were taken to the hospital. Galloway was airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center from the scene of her wreck. She has since been released. Bean was taken to Gaston Memorial and later transferred to Carolinas Medical, where she remains in fair condition. Tipton was taken to Cleveland Regional Medical Center and has been released. An official with the NC State See Others Hurt, 3A Gas drops slightly EMILY WEAVER eweaver@kingsmountainherald.com $2.991. But last year at this time, the national average was $2.614, 30 cents less than what motorists pay gallon in Kings Carolinas and today. The regional average for North Carolina is a little less favor- able. The current average for regular unleaded in this area is $2.919, about 2 cents less than it was a month ago at $2.938, but about 36 cents more than the average last year at $2.564. Crosby said that many factors have culminated to bring a cost decrease to the pumps. “We thought that the BP pipeline in Alaska would be much worse than it has been and there's all the other bad things that we thought were going to happen to the price of gas that haven't happened yet,” he said, like conflicts with supplier countries See Gas, 5A Ingles looking at KM property ELIZABETH STEWART Herald Correspondent the sale. Kings Mountain Mayor Rick come to Kings Mountain." The mayor said that if the super Ingle's Markets of Asheville is seriously looking at property on Shelby Road for a Kings Mountain super market and has made an offer to purchase 19 acres of the A. E. Yarbro property. i Eddie Yarbro, 211 Shelby Road, said Ingle's made a deposit for the land and has six months to close on Murphrey said Ingle's officials have been meeting with city offi- cials for some time now, gathering traffic flow statistics and informa- tion on infrastructure, includin utilities. : "We are continuing the discus- sions and it's not a 100 percent sure deal but we are hopeful," he added. "We'd like for Ingle's to market comes to Kings Mountain it ‘would likely be the anchor store for a shopping center/strip mall. The mayor said the Shelby Road location would be ideal for the gro- cery chain since hundreds of new homes are to be built in the Countryside Road area of the city. "Ingle's officials discussed zoning and the availability of gas, water, sewer and electricity on some spe- cific property and left our meet- ings on a positive note," said the mayor. "We have received numerous calls from citizens asking us to con- tact more grocery stores who could be interested for this area to pro- vide good competition and we have done just that," Murphrey said. He said any grocery store or new business would find the wel- come mat from local citizens.
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