Thursday, January 25, 2007
KINGS MOUNTAIN
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Vol. 119 No. 4
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Little Dan’s robbed
early Sunday morning
Kings Mountain police
are seeking information in
connection to an armed
robbery Sunday at Little
Dan's, 726 York Road,
According to Det. S.D.
Shockley, a white male
entered the business at
12:12 a.m., pushed a clerk
to the ground and stole an
unknown amount of
money.
The man reportedly left
the business in a small,
green car. There were no
injuries.
The suspect is described
as a white male in his mid-
20s. He is approximately
six feet tall ad weights
around 150 to 160 pounds.
Anyone with informa-
tion is asked to call KMPD
at 734-0444.
Bicyclist killed when
hit by truck on US 74
Forty-six-year-old
Charles “Chuck” Price Jr.
of Kings Mountain was
killed Friday when while
riding his bicycle on US 74
Bypass near Bethware
School.
Accoruing to a witness,
a white tractor-trailer car-
rying roof trusses hit Price,
who was riding on the
eastbound shoulder. The
truck did not stop.
Price was pronounced
“dead at Cleveland
Regional Medical Center.
A memorial service hon-
oring his life will be held
today at 2 p.m. at Pathway
Baptist Church, Kings
Mountain.
RADAR WATCH
#
Kings Mountain Police
will run radar at the fol-
lowing locations during
the week of January 28-
February 3.
Sunday, Jan. 28 -
Cleveland Ave.
Monday, Jan. 29 -
Margrace Rd.
Tuesday, Jan. 30 - Shelby
Rd.
Wednesday, Jan. 31 -
Fulton Dr.
Thursday, Feb. 1 - York
Rd.
Friday, Feb. 2 - Waco Rd.
Saturday, Feb. 3 - Kings
Mountain Blvd.
*Police run radar every
day on I-85 and US 74
Bypass.
DEATHS
Marion Carl Morgan, 56
Charles Price Jr. 46 5A
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5 charged in home invasion
Five Kings Mountain men face
charges of robbery with a dan-
gerous weapon and first degree
burglary following an alleged
home invasion Saturday on
Bethware Drive.
Arrested and placed in
Cleveland County Detention
Center under $30,000 bonds each
were Kevin Dewayne Bell, 17, of
115 Owens Street; John Anthony
Smith, 18, of 210 Thornburg
Drive; Jonathon Brett Deaton, 16,
of 200 Yarbro Road; Dennis
Jamar Moore, 20, of 207 Ebenezer
Road; and Chadwick Neal
Blanton, 18, of 116 Crown Court.
According to the Cleveland
County Sheriff's Department,
occupants of the home on
Bethware Drive reported they
were robbed by several males,
both black and white, and gave a
description of the suspects’ car.
Within minutes, Sgt. Billy
Fredell observed the suspect
vehicle traveling north on Stony
Point Road from the direction of
Bethware Drive. Fredell and
other deputies stopped the vehi-
cle and detained the occupants.
Sgt. Fredell had the victims
brought to the scene of the vehi-
cle stop and the victims identi-
fied the five suspects as the ones
that had robbed them. The sus-
pects were arrested and trans-
Kenny Bridges stands in front of two of the homes City Council wants to demolish.
Kenny Bridges to contest city
decision to tear down homes
ELIZABETH STEWART
Herald Correspondent
Kings Mountain City Councils
order to demolish six properties
because of minimum housing
code violations is being contest-
ed by the owner, Charles
Kenneth “Kenny” Bridges, who
will appear before Council's
Tuesday 7 p.m. meeting to fight
the issue.
Holly Black, the city’s codes
administrator, said that the City
of Kings Mountain's Housing
Code establishes a minimum
standard in which existing build-
ings or structures must be main-
tained in order to be fit for
human habitation. She said the
six properties are unoccupied,
one is a mobile home where no
one has been living since 1990-91
and most are “pretty much outer
shells with no city services.”
Black said the findings of fact
by building inspectors reveal
that the costs of repairs and
improvements could not be
made at a cost less than 50 per-
cent of the tax value of the prop-
erty. Black said that the order to
repair some of the property goes
back as far as 2005 and on three
of the properties more than a
year ago.
Bridges said he inherited the
properties from family members
and needs more time to do
repairs. He said that he has been
approached by one city council
member who wants to buy the
property. Bridges said he plans
LOet,
to remove the mobile home at
400 Cherry Street where inspec-
tors say there is evidence of
vagrants. The hearing on the
Cherry Street property was held
17, 2005 and building
inspector Brandon Putnam listed
no current tax value.
The city maintains it has fol-
lowed every step of the law in
trying to enforce the ordinance.
Bridges says he needs more time.
The properties are located at
106, 107 and 108 Myers Street,
400 Cherry Street, 316 N: Dilling
Street and 307 N.Gaston Street.
The zoning enforcement issue
was on the agenda for the Oct.
24, 2006 council meeting. Last
month Council ordered the dem-
olition after hearings conducted
by the codes department which
JOSEPH BRYMER / HERALD
included findings by building
inspectors and complaints that
the properties were open to
vagrants and deterioration was
dangerous to life, health and
other property and following
appeals by the owner.
The dwelling at 106 Myers
Street is valued at $18,029; the
107 Myers Street dwelling is val-
ued at $26,644; and the property
at 108 Myers Street has a tax
value of $30,692.
“Time has elapsed but Kenny is
asking for another chance to
speak on the property issue and
the board is giving him time on
the agenda,” said Mayor Rick
Murphrey.
Bridges resides, he says, “in
spitting distance” of the city lim-
its, the old city lake area.
ported to the Law Enforcement
Center for processing.
Deputies later conducted an
extensive search of the area near
the location of the robbery and
found a .25 caliber handgun
lying in a grassy area of the
shoulder of the road off David
Baptist Church Road, which is
near Bethware Drive.
Teacher cites
plagiarism for
zeroes on
Senior papers
EMILY WEAVER
eweaver@kingsmountainherald.com
Some parents of Kings
Mountain High School seniors
are up in arms after their chil-
dren received zeroes on their
graduation papers.
Their teacher considered the
papers to be plagiarized.
According to Brooks Library at
Central Washington University,
plagiarism means to “copy and
assume credit for someone else's
work, instead of acknowledging
in writing (typically in refer-
ences at the end of a paper) that
someone else produced it.”
One parent told The Herald
that her child had gone to their
English teacher with a rough
draft and asked the teacher
twice if there was any plagia-
rism. According to the parent, it
was the student’s understand-
ing that the rough draft was free
of plagiarism, only needing a
few grammatical changes.
During Christmas break, the
teacher called the parent and
relayed the bad news - that even
though the student had worked
hard on the project she was
forced to give a zero to the final
paper because of plagiarism.
The parent said she reminded
her that her child had come to
her with the rough draft and
asked twice if there were any
‘plagiarism problems.
The teacher denied that this
was the way it happened. “No
student came to me and asked if
plagiarism was present in their
work,” she said. “Teachers can’t
catch everything.”
“When you turn that final
paper in, that is what you are
going to be graded on - that final
paper,” said Principal John
Yarbro, adding that rough drafts
are there to help form the final
paper not to be graded on their
own. :
The parent said she talked to
Yarbro and Director of
See Plagiarism, 5A
Hamrick receives Entrepreneur Award at
Chamber’s 68th annual awards banquet
EMILY WEAVER
eweaver@kingsmountainherald.com
Larry Hamrick Jr., 51, was awarded
the Carson L. Fox Entrepreneur Award
at the 68th annual Cleveland County
Chamber Awards Banquet Thursday
night. The award is given each year to
a Chamber member whose courage
and fortitude has created an outstand-
ing local business.
“I was totally shocked. I would have
never expected this,” he said. “I don’t
do things for rewards, I do things
because I want to do them - that’s the
way good civic people are - but it’s nice
to’ be recognized.”
Hamrick is the president of Warlick
& Hamrick Insurance in Kings
Mountain which has been in operation
since 1946. He and his father Larry
Hamrick Sr. have shared ownership of
the agency since partner Charles E.
Warlick retired in 1999.
“I'm more pleased from the stand-
point of this award not by what it is
but that it was in memory of C. L. Fox,”
he said. “I knew him very well. He was
a nice fellow. C. L. was certainly an
entrepreneur many, many years ago.”
He said that he was honored to receive
it and especially to be presented with it
by Fox's son, of whom he is also fond.
“This is just recognition for hard
work. I think business people can be
involved in their community,” he said.
True to those words, Hamrick
remains involved in the community
through various ventures. He has just
stepped down as chairman of the KM
Family YMCA board. He serves on the
committee of Gateway Trails, Inc. and
on the Kings Mountain Advisory
Board. He is also active with the Kings
Mountain Little Theatre, Cleveland
County 20/20, Relay for Life,
Cleveland County United Way, Special
Olympics, KMHS Booster Club, Lions
Club and Rotary Club. He said that he
hates to be idle, so he tries to stay as
active as he can in the community he
has called home for the past 38 years.